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Old Zelda was scary as shit. And Vad avoided her every chance he could.
If her mother was a freak, then maybe so was she. After all, sometimes she heard the voices, too.
Books had become her refuge, especially books with men—humans, shapeshifters, or aliens—who fell in love hard and claimed their women, body and soul. Those were her favorite.
Silver-eyed devil, that’s what we called him.
She didn’t even look down. No hesitation. No flinch. Just walked off the roof like she could walk on air.”
“This castle has so many secrets,” Jade whispered, looking out the window. “I love this place, but it scares the fuck out of me.”
Only these trees knew the truth of everything that had happened here, and sometimes, she wished there was a way for her to listen to their stories.
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“The woods are dangerous, especially for someone who doesn’t know them.”
He smelled of dangerous adventures and coming home, of heartache and nostalgia.
“You’re very unusual, Miss Clemm. Almost enough to interest me.” He turned his eyes back to her. “And let’s just say that’s not a good thing.”
“Stay out of the woods, little crow. Your feathery friends can’t help you if you’re dead.”
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Because if it was truly in her head, Verenmore posed bigger problems than mysterious woods and mysterious men. It meant her descent into madness had begun.
There was something wrong with the castle. Something very, very wrong. Or maybe it was her. Maybe it was her mind slowly splintering.
He might not have been speaking to her verbally, but his eyes said a lot.
“Steer clear of me, little crow,” he muttered, his eyes piercing, flaying her open. “You might be a luring siren but I’m no ordinary sailor. I’m a mad pirate and I’m trying to resist your call. If I land on your shores, I will plunder and take away everything worth having. Be very careful giving me those eyes.”
There was a natural order to the world, a system that could not be inverted. Taking a life was unnatural, something against the very basic cycle of life and death. An act of such severity tainted the energy around it.
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It was entirely possible that she was imagining it. She didn’t know. Her own mind was unreliable.
“So, wait, am I going to the woods to be witchy or slutty? I’m confused.”
Lol
haven’t come this far to risk it all for a random fling.”
“Your eyes have such hunger. Your soul is starved, and your flesh is famished. Tell me, Miss Clemm, do you want relief?”
“You’ve ruined me with that knowledge.”
Verenmore was her clean slate, and Vad Deverell was her writing on the wall.
The idea that there is universality in death, that regardless of who you are in your life or your station or how much you possess, you will have to dance with death in the end. Kind of beautiful, if macabre, isn’t it?”
“Death is fascinating. It’s the only inevitability of life, but one that most people spend their lives trying to outrun.
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She liked putting the words on paper. It made her make sense of everything that went on inside.
“You have a very interesting face, though not conventionally handsome.”
Lmao
“You’re my student and I’m your teacher, but worse, I’m dangerous. Girls I interact with dance with death much sooner than they should. If you value your life, don’t look at me like that. Not with those eyes.”
“Things like fucking you in front of the boy who held your hand, just to tell him you’ll never be his. Things like bending you over my desk after class and telling you to wrap your lips around my cock like you do with your pencil.”
“This is lust,” she whispered, trying to validate it, excuse it. “No, Corvina.” The side of his lips twitched. “I’ve known lust. This is something worse. This is a barbaric need to possess, to eliminate, to own. This is madness.” Madness.
“If this is madness,” she whispered almost against his lips, “drown me in it.”
Q!!!!!!
“If this is madness,” he told her, echoing her words against her lips, “I’ve already descended too far.”
She wanted this deviant mouth that kissed her like she was his feast after relentless gnawing hunger to kiss her in places no one had.
She wanted, she wanted, to the marrow of her bones, oh how she wanted him, without truly knowing him, not knowing who he was or where he came from. It was madness.
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She loved and hated his attention in equal measure.
“You chose the wrong guy for your first time, little crow,”
“This is our madness.”
“Magic eyes, magic pussy,” he murmured again, looking all over her face. “Little witch.” “Devil. Devil of Verenmore,”
She wanted to suspend time and live in the feelings he elicited in her, a warm, beautiful riot of colors in her dark heart.
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The dark that had always been her friend had become a stranger, and Corvina didn’t like that.
“You can’t handle my secrets, Mr. Deverell,” she told him with a toneless laugh. “You have no idea what I can handle, Miss Clemm. And I told you to call me Vad when we’re alone.” “You also said we wouldn’t be alone again,” she pointed out, settling back a bit more on the bed. Vad sighed and put a hand inside
“You play so beautifully,” she mused out loud, in a slight daze. “Even your demons must sing.”
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She wanted to tell him, to trust him, and this seemed like the first step. She just hoped he didn’t disappoint her.
“She loved me so much, but she didn’t know how to love me right. It wasn’t her fault. She never had any help at all.”
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“This is happening, little crow,” he whispered softly against her lips, pinching her nipple between his fingers. “I’m done denying this. You’ve haunted me long enough. And I don’t care if you’re haunted by forces beyond your understanding or if it’s all in your head. You’re mine now. For as long as this madness ensues.”
She knew, just knew that if she ran, he would chase. And she wanted him to chase. She wanted him to catch her, conquer her, claim her, and reassure her everything would be okay, that their chemistry, their connection was still the sun while her world tilted on its axis.
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“I” slam “am” slam “your” slam “madness.”
“I’m in your head, in your blood, in your very veins. I’ve claimed you before anything else ever could. Your body, your heart, your mind, your fucking soul, it’s all mine. Your hunger is mine to feed, your madness is mine to tame. Do you feel that?”
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Lust was only their beginning. They were meant for more. She had to give it time.
“Rest your pretty head, witch. I’m the devil you know, not the devil you don’t.”
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“I would’ve kissed you bathed in blood, Corvina. If I had a chance to kiss you while a thousand ghosts rose from their graves, I would have kissed you. Don’t doubt that.”
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