That Sik Luv

by Jescie Hall

I wanted sin. And I wanted it with him. Aero is my stalker.

He’s like the air around him. Vanishing whenever he pleases. Showing up to surprise me when I least expect it to pleasure me in ways unimaginable. He only has two rules for me; give myself over to my hidden desires, and never find out who he is. What he doesn’t realize is he’s creating a monster. One with the same insatiable hunger for the sickest form of toxic love.

“Shh,” he whispers against my neck, the scent of leather and sulfur hitting my nostrils. “Don’t scream,” his deep voice rumbles through his chest into mine as his hair tickles the side of my neck. “I’d hate to break my new favorite toy.”

“Just another lamb to the slaughter, love,” I whisper, reaching up and wiping one of the tears from her face with my thumb, eyeing it in disgust. “Don’t cry for him. Those tears look fucking hideous on you.”

The idea that I can trust someone of his level of insanity is asinine. I’m naïve, and run entirely by hormones.

I take the opportunity to lick the side of her face again while she’s still a little out of it.

I remove my hand, allowing her air again, and she sucks in a quick breath, her round, plump breasts rising. “Now you know how I feel every time I’m without you,” I say, slapping the side of her face gently with each word. “I can’t. Fucking. Breathe.”

Violence is my love language, and she speaks my native tongue.

Either she chooses me back or we both leave this earth in two dark cavities, dug out next to one another.

You are my fucking existence, Briony. I live and breathe for you alone. I am yours eternally, entirely at your mercy.”

Feeling her let go around me is my only heaven. I’ll forever worship the deity that is her warm, wet sanctuary. Finding euphoria like that is a dangerous temptation for a man like me. One taste of Briony and I’m on my knees, ready to kill or be killed for my queen.

I forget who he is when I so often find myself pretending who I want him to be.

God is most certainly a woman scorned.

I gaze in awe at this demon goddess above me.