The summer we spent on the beach was all the sex education anyone needed.
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I was always the quiet one, the one who followed suit, doing what others told me to do.
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I was in heaven, married to the devil.
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It had been as if she’d talked to God, praising the universe through twinkling stars.
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Ten minutes before I would have drowned in his come. Now I just wanted it off me. I wanted him off me.
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Even when he treated me like a slut, I wanted him.
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Paxton Pierce was an impossible man. One that no woman could please. Not even me.
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No matter how much I wanted to be stronger than him, show him what I was really made of, I couldn’t do it. I melted to this man.
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Taylor Swift. That’s cute. How is it you can remember the words to high school songs, but not who you are?
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I just sucked your dick at six o’clock in the morning. I feel like I at least deserve a good morning.
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It was physical, enhanced with complicated emotions and powerful poisons. I even felt like I wanted to crash, yet I was still feeling the high, the memory burning my chest every time I thought about it.
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I just wanted to leave it all behind and move forward, and that’s exactly what I did. I stopped worrying about my past and who I was before. All I could do was be a better person now. From this point forward.
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I knew without knowing that he was my husband. Not only was I broken, I was married to a dick. Trying
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Good Lord! I was broken and stupid. “Please tell me I’m not married to you,
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Don’t look down when someone’s talking to you. You look them straight in the eyes. You’re bigger than that.
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Time didn’t seem to matter when you didn’t know who you were or where you belonged.
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The pit of my stomach balled and tightened. A gut feeling. That dreaded instinct when you know you’re doing something wrong, or you can sense something bad about to happen.
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Well, I’ll be. Go to hell. You’re fighting your own demons. You like me this way, and you’re too damn bullheaded to admit it.
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Go to bed with me,” I requested. I didn’t offer my hand, only my bed.
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Pfft, everybody should fall in love when they don’t remember anything.
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I was a raging slut. No doubt about it.
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You’re driving me up the fucking wall,
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I bared all to this man. I gave him everything, and I wanted to. I wanted to make him happy for the rest of our long lives. If only it could be that easy.
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He kissed me, pulled me closer, explored every inch of my body with the tips of his fingers, and made love. That’s exactly what he had done. He knew it, and I knew it. We made love.
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People didn’t have this much gravitational pull toward one another without it being real.
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And… One fucked up marriage. I was a kept woman. Black and white. Red and Green. I was a glorified whore.
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I became more and more introverted, realizing all the lies my mother told. You couldn’t escape life with a vision of a better one. It always came back. As soon as your eyes opened. Real life was there. The cold hard truth.
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What else was I supposed to do? It wasn’t like I had anyone else coming to my rescue.