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“You have to tell me a secret,”
“Something no one else knows about you.”
“And when I win?”
“If,” she points out, slitting her eyes at me with a challenge. “I’ll give you the same in return.”
“Nah,” I mutter, determination setting in. “I don’t want one secret from you, Hex. I want them all.”
“When I find you, not if, I’ll let you know what I want,”
dragging my mouth across the shell of her ear. “Start running.”
“Rumor says if you walk where I’m hiding at midnight, you can hear the screams of a girl whose unrequited love made her take her own life.”
I deserve my anger, and it deserves me.
“Cold,”
“You’re not cold, Hex,” he rasps through the speaker. “I felt you burning beneath my hands just the other day.”
Apparently, my pussy is voice-activated.
“Wanna know what you’re going to give me when I win, Hex?”
“A taste of that witchy mouth.”
He wouldn’t just kiss me; he would devour me whole and fuck if I don’t want to let him.
“You’re going to drip like honey on my tongue, aren’t you?”
“Are you hiding somewhere no one can see you touching yourself?”
“When I find you with your hand still in your panties, are you going to let me replace your fingers with my tongue?”
“Tsk. Tsk.” Silas clicks his tongue. “Don’t lie to yourself, baby. Don’t pretend you don’t want me between those thighs, eating your pussy until you drench my face. ‘Cause that’s
what I’ll do if you just let me find you.”
“I’ll spread you open, fill your dripping cunt with my fingers.
Stretching you open so it’s nice and fucking ready for my cock. You’ll be nothing but a tight hole for me to use, yeah?”
“Hot,” I gasp, my body fucking my fingers with vigor. “So fucking hot.” “I bet you are close, aren’t you, baby? I can hear that tight pussy making a mess.”
“Tell me where you are, pretty thing.”
“What if I finish before you get here?”
“Then you’ll have been such a good girl for me, Hex.”
“That’s the easiest orgasm you’ll ever get from me.”
“You’ll work much harder for the rest.”
“I win,” I say on an exhale. “Pay up, Hawthorne. Give me your secret.”
“I love watching you come.”
“Get the fuck up off your knees with your mouth open like that, Coraline, before I break this
glass and make you choke on my come.”
“Inevitable checkmate.”
“It means you’re mine now, Hex.”
“He does look hot in a tux, though.” I can’t stop the blush that heats my cheeks at her words. “Oh my God, you like him,” she gasps like she’d caught me in a lie. “You so like him!”
He makes me feel vulnerable. Makes me feel safe, like I can open myself up and know he wouldn’t run away scared by what’s inside.
“But I think Silas could be good for you, Coraline. I think you could be good for him too. The both of you reek of sadness.”
Terrified that a good man, a great man, like Silas is going to die because of me. There are two parts of me tearing me apart on the inside. The piece that knows how this ends and the piece that wants to be selfish.
I want him, but not more than I want him to live.
I spent two years on a revenge spree because it was what I wanted. But if I’m honest with myself? I want her. I want this with her.
It’s not ideal circumstances, marrying her before we truly know one another, but I still want her. I want the two years of access to this mirage of a woman because for the first time in a long time, she makes me feel alive. There is a spark inside of me that didn’t exist before, that I never believed could.
“I’m seconds away from kissing your fucking mouth because you look this beautiful and still feel the need to ask me if I’m sure about marrying you.”
She will always have me.
“The first time I kiss you, Hex, is when I make you my wife.”
“There is no one else in the world I’d rather do this with,” I say honestly. “Am I leaning enough?”
“Silas, I promise to be your peace when the world provides only war. To be your secret keeper and safe haven. Today, I vow to be the one person who accepts you for who you are and who you will become.” She glances up at me, holding my gaze as she speaks the last line. “Till death do us part.”
“On this day, I vow to make your rage my own, to weather the storm of your revenge and keep you forever safe. I promise to stand by you. No matter what comes, you will never be alone. Till death do us part.”
“Nothing I can ever give you will resemble love, Silas.” “Then I’ll pretend.”
I dip in and steal my first taste of the Witch of Ponderosa Springs. The Cursed One. For once, this town might’ve gotten something close to right. Her mouth is a spell.
I want to fuck my wife, right in this room, and I don’t care who watches. Let them see her spread open on one of these wooden pews. Let the world see how pliable and so fucking good she is for me, with her legs shaking as she begs me to stop making her
