Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 6It is hard enough when your heart is hurt to feel strong enough to risk it again, but when it has been obliterated, as Bella's has, the glimmer of love or joy can be even more painful than hurt.
We are seeing that there is starting to be a circle of people forming around Bella who want to be given the chance to love and care for her. She just isn't ready. Not yet. Luckily, she has a neighbor who is direct, and has heard the madness that comes out in the dark. She needs this, so desperately. Then, maybe, she can take another small step forward.
Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 5Wow. To come home to find both of your parents murdered. I don't know how you recover from that. I am impressed that his nightmares are now so infrequent. I just can't imagine.
He is also lucky that he is clean of many things after two years of drugs and whores.
Poor Edward is made to be the tool in this one, isn't he? Guy can't help that the general needs to salute the lady, no more than I can help my rock hard nipples when it is below 50 degrees.
I do like how she is starting to play with him, though. She is still the shy girl at times, but Tiger Kitty is also fucking with him. :)
Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 4I can't imagine the tragedy Bella has seen. Having my best friend murdered left me emotionally distant and feeling unworthy for 4 years, so I can't imagine what she is going through.
It is great to hear she is feeling everything he is, but it is going to be a long road for the two of them. Both feeling so undeserving due to their respective pasts.
I can't wait to see what it is she is designing!
Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 3I am so glad that you allowed the first meeting to be brief, and strained, and awkward. He doesn't really know her yet, other than the glimpses of her taste in books, and there is a temper under that shy shell. There is no mistaking the pure physical attraction. I like that you made him feel guilty for be at the strip club.
Already a misconception painted by Edward though(her drug use - sounds seeder than I intend it to). It will be interesting when the truth is revealed.
Finally, I like how who seems to be a normally confident man becomes silently contemplative and observant when Bella is around.
Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 2::sniffs the air:: I smell angst galore in this story! ::fist pump::
Bella has a past two, and it sounds like a horrifying one at that. I have my speculations to the outcome of the plane's descent, but will wait for you to spell them out for me.
Though Bella has a dependence on a cocktail of drugs to allow her to function, she is also making a small effort on her own to try to live in working for Esme and letting her in, even if it is just a little.
I am interested in seeing if the rage is a result of her experience or was present before.
Clipped Wings and Inked Armor, Ch. 1::kicking myself...kicking myself furiously::
WHY DID I WAIT SO LONG TO START THIS?!
HH, if the rest of this story is even half as good as this first chapter, you can count me as a new disciple at your alter.
I am hooked from the start. It is not an in your face type of start. It is a gentle cadence that eases into your brain until you find that you are entranced with your characters. Edward is a man who loves what he does. He is content in his life. Obviously, there are some things in his past, and the fact that he has one is delicious.
Also, you give us, who I assume is Bella, in the first chapter, but like Edward, you give us flashes of her personality, but no true access. She is a mix of interesting detail so far, yet she is a mystery, which I love.
So happy to have entered the rabbit hole. You will be hearing more from me.
572, o/sThis was a great one-shot on the trials and tribulation of being in sexual exile. You did a great job of building up to the final moment. I love the blocks you threw in their road along the way until they could come together (wink).
Good luck in the contest!
