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There was a phrase he’d overheard humans say to each other, as well as Merikh had uttered it to him and his kindred. He’d never truly understood what it meant, why someone would say it, until this very moment. It felt perfect. “Fuck... off,” he rumbled.
“I’m not a fucking boy – I’m a man. One that’s treated you better than anyone else.” “You’re actually a little bitch. I was just trying to be nice.”
The laugh that bubbled past her lips was completely unhinged and utterly panicked, as she wondered how she’d gotten herself into this position. “So, what did you do today, Emerie?” “Oh, nothing unusual. Just jerked off a Duskwalker. You?”
Ingram had decided Emerie was the most delicate thing in the entire world. Therefore, he must protect her always. From creatures, humans, and even the water that could suffocate her. He would dive into the river and ferociously maim it if it tried to swallow her alive.
“Good! And you better not watch me from the bushes like a freaking creep or I promise I’ll be really, really upset with you.” Ingram winced, since he’d been planning to do exactly that. I take it back. Emerie is mean.
He wanted to change for her. No one had wanted to be ‘better’ for her, had wanted to fit her rather than try to fix or put up with her.
She mentally threw her hands up. Great. There go my plans of figuring out how D plus V equals a great time.
“Sing for me, little butterfly,”
He just wanted her, his pretty little butterfly. She was all he needed to be at ease in this world.
“Your soul is mine to revive, little butterfly.”
Her heart almost leapt to her throat, just as her face heated in deep-seated embarrassment. “Ingram, no!” she squealed, running towards him. Both Aleron and Ingram turned their skulls towards her, just as Ingram put his forefinger through a ring he’d made with his other hand. Oh shit, he was explaining to Aleron what sex was! She shouldn’t have left him alone. Now he was telling his twin about his – their – sex life!
“Did she gift you this horn ornament?” Weldir muttered. “I hope if I ever have a physical form, that Lindiwe will do the same. I would like to be adorned with affection.”
“And you will not spend a moment apart from me. I have already proven that I will travel across existences to obtain you, rescue you, and keep you, and not even the afterworld can hide you from me. You are mine.”
She no longer needs to fear me. And he no longer needed to fear himself.
