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She never wanted to feel like that ever again. Only twenty-four, but feeling like a hundred and four.

Ani-yo! Ani-yo! Ani-yo!

LOVE? What the heck is love? Some say it is the definition of life and others deny the existence of the word at all. It can be compared to a gamble. Like the vocalist, Sia Furler said, "Sometimes you are forced to make a choice; see the bet, raise the bet, or fall. Some may say it is the same with love, like banging your head against a wall."

The harsh truth about matters of the heart is that you do not always get what you give; only she realised it a bit too late!

The very vehement emotions that can make anyone's reasoning capacity deteriorate can be found in a considerable number of distinct forms. They can be a petty crush, slight infatuation, a mild obsession, fatal attraction or true unconditional love. Katherine Chaney O'Neil's 'situationship' with Maxanen Vincere Arnold was living proof that a union could actually sprout into something so beautiful beyond word description, yet toxic enough to consume you.

None of the forms mentioned above would best fit or characterise their 'situationship, but it was the dangerous corrosive kind.

Xan, as only she called him, had a heart that had been scarred from deception and his hands reeked of betrayal yet she trusted them completely. Just a snap of his finger was strong enough to cause a vendetta, a nickname he had so proudly held. He could easily stir up a hornet's nest and control it in the nick of time. He could not protect Katherine from danger because he was the danger. Maxanen was good to her, but not good for her. After all, too much of a good thing is never good.

In a more succinct phrase, one dose of Maxanen could land any girl in a mental asylum.

To Katherine, their situationship only turned into a relationship when they got engaged. It had all happened too fast. That very moment, the moment she had said 'Yes!', was when it had all begun. Max, as everyone else called him, had turned into an overprotective beast, a caged tiger, a serpent waiting to strike at anyone who so much as got close to his beloved, an animal. She tried to stray, but he could never let her out of his sight. He did not dare hunt her down, but he could somehow haunt her back into his embrace. She did not even try to hide. He could smell her scent from miles away.

Xan was dangerous, but his K.C was attracted to him dangerously!