Marrow

by Trisha Wolfe

trying altogether. “Your sounds are mine,” Jack hisses, and before I realize what’s happening, he’s pushing my damp panties into my open mouth. I look down my body at the fierce command in Jack’s eyes, whimpering at the erotic taste of my own arousal. He pushes the last of the fabric past my lips and holds my jaw shut with his thumb. “They are only mine. Now come on my fucking tongue and keep quiet.”

“I didn’t see Hayes,” I say as Jack reaches forward to lay a hand on my arm and guide me past where he stands on the threshold. An electric hum shakes the blood in my veins at his touch, but I tamp it down beneath a devious smile. “Not to say he won’t come to peep in your windows.” The black door closes behind me and locks. “If he does, I’ll fucking flay the skin from his face and feed it to him,” Jack says. “And they claim romance is dead.”

“You’re such a good host, Dr. Sorensen. Thanks for the shots.”

“But look around you, lille mejer. You are not unwanted. You are not alone. You are unique.” Jack bends his head until his eyes are level with mine and I have no choice but to meet their sharpened determination. “You are a bright and blinding light in the dark. Luminous. And I’m sorry I made you feel like anything less than that.”

And what is love if not that. Maybe Jack will never feel it. Maybe he does and will never know. But I can feel it. I know its shapes and colors, its camouflage. I was made what I am in one night and the days of pain that followed. I wasn’t born and raised this way. I’ve loved and been loved, and lost it all.

“Which room is mine?” I ask, nodding toward the corridor. “This one.” “Then which one is yours?” “Also this one.”

Jacob’s

ladder.

I looked into the captivating pale-blue of her eyes and I knew—in a fraction of a second—she would be my destruction.

You are indomitable. You are both the warmth of the sun and the destruction of its consuming fire,”

“And it’s my touch that makes you tremble. My mouth on your pussy that makes you beg. My cock buried in your cunt

that makes you moan. My cum that will be dripping down your legs. Tell me I’m the only one you want. The only one who can stand in your flame as you burn down the world.”