The Wanderers: Nameless - Book One

by Nikki Robb

The real monsters are human.

I wanted to taste her, to sink to my knees and run my tongue over her center, send her into a shattering orgasm where she could do nothing but scream my name. I wanted to wear her thighs around my head like a crown. I wanted her. Plain and simple.

I think that if someone forces you to change who you are to be with them then that is toxic and dangerous…but if you find someone who makes you want to change, makes you want to grow and learn and be a better person then that’s fate.

ATHENA: What if I fall apart when they leave? DAVIA: Then that means you were healed enough to break.

“You belong in the stars, Athena.” She looked at me in question. “Your beauty is too captivating to view so closely. I fear you may have ruined me for everything. Museums, flowers, art. You are the most stunning thing I’ve ever witnessed, Darlin’. Nothing will ever compare again.”

How is it that it took me a century to feel comfortable in my body, but only a second to feel so at home in hers?

I realized that I craved everything with her. Not just the physical moments that her body belonged to me, and mine to her, but the soft, quiet moments like this. I wanted to wake up next to her, I wanted to make coffee in our kitchen, I wanted to watch tv late into the evening, I wanted long car rides, I wanted grocery runs, I wanted normal. I wanted a life. I craved the mundane with her.

A raspy, violent sound ripped from their throats. A single word, spoken in terrifying unison, had my entire body clenching in fear and uncertainty. “Mate.”