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Dancing with Sin by Alexandria Lee

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“You probably don’t even remember this but when your father and I used to take you and your sister there, you would daydream out loud in the car ride there and back about how one day, you’d take your own family to the lake. You said how you couldn’t wait to show your favorite spot in the world to the love of your life. You’ve always been a romantic, darling.” 

She hadn’t said it yet, but I could feel where the weight of this conversation was going. I could feel it in the air as it shifted around me like the wind, twirling the pieces of my broken heart around like they were nothing but fallen, dead leaves. 

“I’d never taken anyone to that spot before,” Ethan said, piecing the pieces together himself. Then, his eyes dropped to mine and the howling wind came to a stop, shreds of my heart scattering around my feet. 

“And then there was you.” 

Me. A girl from New York who grew up creating ballets to Disney movie soundtracks and broke her ankle at age eight. A girl who hated peas and cried at sad dog commercials. A girl who ran away from everything that hurt her, holding the broken pieces of her heart in her hands when she arrived in town. 

And then there was Ethan Black. He saw me—really saw me—and he took those pieces and crafted a mural out of them. His compassion blended the colors, his inability to recognize boundaries molded the shape of it back together while his tender, romantic soul was meant to put the finishing touches in place. 

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