velvet and venom
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Curiosity becomes haunting when someone peers through the window of a life they think they understand and finds poetry sharp enough to recognize them.
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Some cravings survive long after the danger does, leaving the body to remember what the mind already knows was poison.
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At five in the morning, desire whispers a familiar name even while every scar remembers exactly why wanting is not the same as safety.
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Softness was never the same as harmlessness; roses have thorns, pretty things have teeth, and survival taught her how to use both.
