Caution Tape (Mutual Monsters Duet Book 1)

by Molly Doyle

All things die eventually. Death is normal, and it cannot be escaped.

I want to remove the skin from her skull and run my lips along the smooth, bleached white bone.

I wonder what would be perfect to say to her in this moment. I want to reach into the rancid blender of teeth and knives I call a brain and pull out the wickedness in its most delicious form.

“Touch me like that again and I’ll peel your face off to use as my next Halloween mask. Capiche?”

“Cora,” he says, grinning slightly, “we might be mutual monsters.”

The sight of blood, and the enticing glow of the red liquid was almost just enough to send me to an orgasm. The intoxicating scent of copper overwhelmed my senses and left me falling into a bottomless well of euphoria.

Adrenaline.

He’s a psychopath, in every sense of the word, yet he doesn’t scare me one bit. In a world full of pitch-black-nothingness, he makes me feel alive. Like I am capable of anything. Like the whole world is ours to own and to play with. Our own bloody playground.

It’s a bone. He’s been fucking me with a bone this whole time. And it’s just given me the best fucking ride.

I roll my eyes. “Cora, I have killed two people. I’m going to kill more. I ate Michael’s liver. I bit into it, and it popped in my mouth.” I shake my head. “Tell me what you’re feeling.”

“Can I kill him?” I whisper to Cora. “If you’re a good boy,” she whispers back.

“I’m going to chop off the bitch’s head! Then I’m going to bury this blade in her husband’s fucking skull! Is that what you want to hear? I’m going to see if I can hit the spot between his eyes. I want to watch it split. I want to see if it’s like the movies!

“People say to watch out for red flags in dating, but I figure maybe we should be wrapped in—” “Caution tape,” I finish. “Very clever, Cora.”