#eveborne

                    soft skin, tender touch, fingers scarred only by needlework reach out to skim against the girl’s cheekbone, her thumb coming to brush away hot tears as crimson lips caress a gentle hush. “ oh, sweet, you know it GUTS me to see something lovely upset.” her tongue trained from infancy to boost EGOS and eyes to draw lovers in before white teeth would EVISCERATE them, even GRIMHILDE could not carve this care from her own daughter’s heart. where evie lives to please ( until a heart lay bare in her sharp-nailed fingers. until she could call them hers and dispose of them as easily. ), pleasing jude leaves her desperate in a way she doesn’t recognize, breathless and eager and true. “ don’t be so CRUEL to something i’m so fond of. ”