"I feel like you will ruin me one day, Angelica." His voice was hoarse.



His forehead came to rest against mine.



"But why do I want to be ruined so badly?" He breathed.

~~

He was lightning and thunder, frightening, but so magnificent.

I was a hurricane, lost and in search of purpose.

When we met it was like a collision of two catastrophes.

But who knew chaos could be so beautiful, so addicting.

And for a moment, he made me forget the destruction that is inevitable when two storms collide.

When Storms Collide

The coming four days passed quickly.

Sebastian and I settled into an easy routine. His shoulder was still healing but he rarely asked me for help with anything around the house, so my work was limited to cooking for the two of us and sometimes Warren and I suspected the only reason Sebastian was okay with me doing that was because he knew I enjoyed doing it.

He was quiet most of the time but strangely I never felt uncomfortable around him.

Sometimes he'd leave for hours without a word and come back looking like death but he never told me where he'd been or what he did.

The sound of the front door unlocking had my heart racing. I scowled. My heart had been doing that a lot recently.

/"Ciao./" Sebastian greeted as he stepped into the kitchen and my traitorous heart raced again.

I turned to look at him and frowned. He looked exhausted. His eyes were dull and his mouth was pulled down.

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