𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗

❝ 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞. 𝐁𝐮𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲. ❞

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

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𝘦𝘭 𝙢𝙞𝙚𝙙𝙤 𝙮 𝙡𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙤𝙡𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙖 𝘯𝘰𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘢 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘴

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“𝖦𝗈𝖽𝖽𝖺𝗆𝗇 𝗋𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗍,
𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝖻𝖾 𝗌𝖼𝖺𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝗈𝖿 𝗆𝖾.”

𝖕𝖾𝗇𝗇𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 #homᥱboᥙᥒd
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[Loud Review @TheLoudReview]

Secrets I have held in my heart are harder to hide than I thought

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) your ear, but a kiss won’t suddenly make me think I’ve made things up to you. Puedes besarme, mi corazón. No lo diré.”

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

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#MontcuzzaWedding2024

“Lizzie, can you just—can we please talk about this? Please?” AJ pleads with @SmartsAndHeart as she trails her through the reception. She can’t even get her girlfriend to look at her, and it’s been an entire day of worrying about (c)

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[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart Ajé arches an eyebrow, curious about her girlfriend’s sudden demeanor change. Though she recognizes it’s probably the least she could do for her deception, she still finds it oddly out of character for Elizabeth.

Leaning in closer, she whispers, “I don’t know who’s been in (c)

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@CharminglyWild (c) myself useful. Or if she’ll just spend the night avoiding me.

Thanks for the advice, George. I hope you have a good night tonight—I’ll come find you later, during the garter toss.”

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

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#MontcuzzaWedding2024

AJ catches up to @CharminglyWild as they watch the newly-wedded couple descend back down the aisle together.

“Hey, um, I know now’s probably not the best time,” she begins. “but do you think we could talk for a second? About what (c)

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[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@CharminglyWild (c) should go find her,” she says, finally breaking off from the older man. There already is a growing crowd in the well-decorated hall, and she spots Lizzie
by the caterers—likely giving a strict instruction for when to serve dinner. “See if I can make it better by making (c)

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) Fine. I’ll do that. I’ll be dangerous and violent and cruel. You’ll see how much I give a damn about you, and then you won’t 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 do anything so stupid again.”

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

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When AJ steps under the dim warm red lights of the Viper Pit, she doesn’t have to look long to find @SmartsAndHeart. Sitting on a lounge chair in a VIP section, curled up beside the owner of the joint.

A scowl sets on her expression, as she quickly goes to approach them.

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[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) “I think that’s why you keep making obviously stupid choices. You like it better when I’m like this. When I’m unreasonable, demanding, rude, and angry.” AJ sharply cuts towards an exit from three lanes over. “I have to do dangerous, violent things to prove I love you. (c)

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) lunch,” the waitress snipes, her smile going from flirtatious to venomous. AJ frowns at her. “You must be really family-oriented.”

“She’s not sick, she’s been getting fu—wait, what made you think she’s my sister?”

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

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It’s been a few days since Ajé relented on the worst of her punishment. She’s taken @SmartsAndHeart out for lunch; both to get her energy up, and to get her some sunlight.

But while she waits for her girlfriend to come back from the bathroom, a waitress has seemingly (c)

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[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart The older woman brightens visibly at the sight of Elizabeth, even with how tired her girlfriend looks. She scoots over in the booth to make room for her, much to the dismay of the waitress that had been chatting her up.

“Oh, how nice of you to bring your sick sister out for (c)

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) against him last year because he had his victims killed. With a man that takes pretty women like yourself, and puts them in dark rooms for them to be drugged and used by anyone with a fifty in their pocket.”

The speedometer hits 130. “And you wanted to sign a deal.”

[𝑨𝑱𝑬́ ╱ ✗ @AYABAORO]

@SmartsAndHeart (c) of the incredibly fast sports car.

“You wanted to sign a deal,” AJ echoes calmly, the lights and highways of the city a veritable blur outside the windows of her car. “With a man notorious for sex trafficking. With a man that only just escaped several sex crimes charges (c)