Quintessentially Q (Monsters in the Dark, #2)

by Pepper Winters

I wanted to own her past, her present, her future. I wanted to be her first and last and fucking forever.

Gravity shifted. Again. I dragged Tess into my lap, wrapping my arms tight around her. In my embrace, I held the moon and stars and planets. I held my future fucking happiness,

“She’s your other half, Q. She lives for the sharp pleasure of pain and you live to give it to her.

She needs to give me back what’s mine.” “And that is?” Frederick goaded. “Her fucking heart.”

“Feel that, Tess. That’s for you. I want you. So. Fucking. Much. Please come back to me. You will come back to me.”

I fucking loved this woman. Not just for now. Not just for tomorrow. But always. Now and forever, I was hers.

I knew she didn’t mean to sound creepy as fuck, but she looked like a little wind up doll asking me which murder weapon I preferred.