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To have and to hold, where even death cannot part us,β Juliette whispered.
βIn this life and the next,β Roma returned, βfor however long our souls remain, mine will always find yours.
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They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.
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Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.
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These violent delights have violent ends, you have always known this.
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I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.
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Together or not at all, doragaya
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This is why my betrayal was so terrible. Because you believed me incapable of hurting you, and yet I did.
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I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I l still love you so much that I hate you for it
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I said I wanted you dead," Roma confirmed. "I never said I didn't love you
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Your life," he seethed. "Is not a game of luck".
"Since when," Juliette spat, "did you care about my life?'
"I don't." He was trembling with fury. "I hate you".
And when Juliette didn't recoil, Roma kissed her.
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moya doragaya, I love you, I love you
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I made a vow to you, Roma.β She took a step forward. No one stopped her. βWhere you go, I go. I will not bear a day parted. I will take a dagger to my own heart if I must.
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My darling, darling Juliette
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You are a liar, Juliette Cai," he said. "You lied to me until I wanted you dead
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Why do you pause?β Juliette mimicked bitterly. Softly, she set him down, brushing his mussed hair out of his face. βBecause even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.
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Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.
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What are you afraid of?' Roma Montagov asked.
Juliette's lips parted. She exhaled a short, abrupt breath. 'The consequences,' she whispered, "of love in a city ruled by hate.
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Roma Montagov kicks a chair. βGodββ ββdammit,β Juliette Cai finishes with a whisper, far across the city.
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Keep fighting for love.
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War rages on, and the city tells the tale of Roma and Juliette like some folk song passed between rickshaw runners on their breaks. They speak of Roma Montagov and Juliette Cai as the ones who had dared to dream. And for that, in a city consumed by nightmares, they were cut down without mercy.
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Hello, stranger
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Roma Montagov wasnβt the heir scheming in the shadows anymore. It seemed that he was sick of the city seeing him as the one slitting throats in the dark, the one with a heart of coal and the clothing to match.
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A long time ago, Roma had told Juliette that her anger was like a cold diamond. It was something she could swallow smoothly, something to be placed upon other people, gliding along their skin in glitter and glamour before they realized far too late that the diamond had sliced them into pieces. He had admired her for it. Mostly because his own anger was the precise oppositeβan uncontrollable wave of fire that knew no subtlety.
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but here, with his pulse thudding through his chest and beating an even rhythm onto hers, he was just a boy, just a bloody, beating heart that could be cut out at any moment by a blade sharp enough
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Once, a long time ago, at the back of a library while a storm raged on outside, Juliette had asked Roma, βDo you ever imagine what life would be like if you had a different last name?β βAll the time. Donβt you?β Juliette had thought about it. βOnly sometimes. Then I consider all that I would miss out on without it. What would I be if I werenβt a Cai?β Roma had lifted onto his elbow. βYou could be a Montagov.β βDonβt be ridiculous.
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The feud keeps taking and hurting and killing and still I couldn't stop loving you even when I thought I hated you.
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Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I
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But donβt be mistaken, Juliette.β
His eyes swiveled to her slowly. That once-familiar stare was now fathomless, and Julietteβs breath caught in her throat, stilling like a creature in the headlights. She was ready. She knew what he would say. But it still tore into her, it still stung as mightily as razor wire wrapped around her heart, both ends pulled until it could wrap no tighter.
βWhen this is over, I will have my revenge. You will answer to me for what you did.
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Roma Montagov as he
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Why do you pause?' Juliette mimicked bitterly. Softly, she set him down, brushing his hair out of his face.
'Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.
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Why do you pause?" Juliette mimicked bitterly. Softly, she set him down, brushing his mussed hair out of his face. "Because even if you hate me, Roma Montagov, I still love you.
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Really?" Juliette demanded through the glass door. "You climbed my house? You couldn't have simply thrown a few pebbles?"
Roma looked down into the gardens below, "You don't have any pebbles.
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I doubt you have a penny on you,β Juliette finally replied. Reluctantly, she took a step forward and raised her hand; Roma did the same. They didnβt need to speak to make the complementing gesture. They had always known how to predict what the other was about to do.
βIndeed, but I have plenty of larger bills. Would you offer more thoughts for those
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Roma was going to start bawling, right here and right now. He wasnβt built for so many feelings.
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