Golden Cages & Borrowed Wings
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Chapter 20: Waking NightmaresÂ
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âYou know, when all of this is over Iâll see you both in hell right?â I tell them in a sweet voice but I know there must be something dark and disturbing in my eyes when I say it.
They both look at me in surprise for a moment. Then NotPeeta laughs a little nervously.
âSure, Precious. Iâll be the one with the suit on. And youâll be the one in the dress. And weâll spend the rest of eternity dreaming up ways to make each other scream.â He tells me with a wink and a grin.
I smile at him, imagining strapping him to a table and shooting his veins full of burning substances and watching his eyes roll back in his head as he shrieks in terror.
âOh, the fun weâll have.â I reply and his eyebrows quirk up slightly, while his lips pucker. I think he might want to kiss me.
I think I might want to kiss him too. If only so I can bite through his lip and watch the blood drip onto his obnoxiously starched and pressed white dress shirt.
âLetâs dance, handsome.â I purr at him, channeling my inner Johanna, who had the unique ability to make a come-on seem seductive and like an insult at the same time.
NotPeetaâs blue-green eyes glinted darkly at me for a second before he smiled. It was a pleased look on his undeniably handsome face.
âWhatever you say baby,â He replies before taking my hand and leading me in the practiced steps easily for our rehearsal.













