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“I know that once you are in love”—he kissed her again softly—“and once you have bonded to another”—another kiss to her forehead—“you Slayers are incapable of stopping it or hurting the one you’ve chosen. It doesn’t matter how it destroys you.”
“It seems that it’s you, my love, who fucked up when you chose me.”
She didn’t belong in anyone else’s head but mine. Stars knew she had taken up every empty space of it in her absence. She was all I could think about.
If she and I were the only two left in all the realms, I wouldn’t care. I would rule her. I would worship her. I would punish her.
I heard once that if you are angry about something, it was really because you were sad about it. Maybe it was true, maybe it wasn’t. All I knew was that I was always angry, but if I let myself think about the reason why, I would cry until my tears drowned every bird in the sky.
I didn’t give a shit what her name was. Mine was the only name she deserved.
She liked the feel of it. It reminded her of me. “Fucking stars,” I growled.
I told her she would never, ever be free from me, and I fucking meant it. Whether she had killed me or not, I would have returned to haunt her—and that’s exactly what I planned to do.
She thought I was awful when I hated her. She’s about to learn just how horrible I am in love with her.
I breathed out, preparing to see the princess again. It was touching how much Eli doted on her. It was a shame I had to kill her.
“Never in my immortal life have I ever wanted anything more than I want to feel you under me right now, pet, but I am not a gentle, benevolent man. I have hurt others I barely desired, killed others because of my lack of control; others, I haven’t wanted a modicum as much as I crave you,”
“I won’t allow myself inside of you in that way until I can control myself enough to know you will still remain with me forever. Unharmed.”
“You look like a goddess veiled in my cum,”
“The part of the game where I slaughter every member of the Seelie family that took you away from me, starting with the prince.”
“You better stop looking at my mouth that way, or I’ll never be able to walk through town, Cal,”
“Do you know what happens to pets that run away from home, Calypso?” His hand around my neck pressed me harder against the wall. “They get punished.”
“Make me alive again, Caly.”
Everyone would die. The more they were involved in hurting my Caly, the more they would suffer. The ones who made her leave me would hurt so fiercely, so relentlessly, their ghosts would weep for an eternity.
“I need her, Walter. I’m inescapably in love with her.”
“You belong with me. In the Elysian Fields with Aether or the depths of Tartarus with Kaohs—you will always be mine. Always.”
“I don’t need a weapon. The Seelie do. I want you as my lover and queen.”
“You are an alluring rose with secret thorns. A droplet of rain fighting to quench and to drown,” he said, looking deranged and enthralled all at the same time. “You are my only care in life.”
“If I’m the monster and you the knight, then Aurelius must be the damsel in distress. Tell me, do you ever grow tired of letting him think you are the princess in the tower and not the dragon that guards it?”
“You are the keeper of my soul, no matter what castle you choose to reign over,”
“I am nothing more than a soul without residence since you left me, and I refuse to bear a life without you. Should I die, let it be by your hand, so that your touch is what I remember when I haunt every single dwelling you inhabit. Soon enough, you will meet with me again in Tartarus.” His voice softened while his eyes steeled. “Go on, Calypso, make your life better and finish me off. For good this time.” His right dimple popped. “It makes no difference to me if I’m dead or alive when I chase you.”
“This cunt is dripping wet, Caly. Am I supposed to believe you don’t need me after feeling this? You’re a liar.”
“I was trying not to break you. Remember that. Now, be a good pet and sit.”
“Grip the throne, and don’t let go,”
“What if I lose control? I don’t want to hurt you.”
“Have you turned soft, Mendax? Afraid to fuck me?” I grumbled, a new level of frustration possessing me. His eyes smoldered. “Inside and out, there isn’t a single part of me that’s soft. Especially when you are involved. You really should remember that.”
“That’s it, my love, squeeze this cock. I can feel every part of you,”
“Sit on my cock, hellhound. I want to watch you take me,”
“Keep taking me, Caly. I want to watch your face when you feel me inside of you, filling up every part of this lying cunt with cum. Then I want to watch it drip from this decadent pussy. Come for me, my goddess. Come on my cock,”
“Her reciprocation of my love is unneeded. I would never require her to hold the same attachments as myself because it is an impossible feat. I am possessed with a cruel and bloody love that collapses and suffocates, squeezes and rips until scars and bruises are the only traces left. She is the noose that hangs me, the rope that strangles and chokes at my soul, and no one—not her or anyone—could ever be left as breathless as I am.”
You don’t even see the darkness inside her. She was made for me and me alone.”
“I can’t lose you. You’re the only reason I fight. Those thrones belong to us. I will return for you in a week’s time.” “No. I’m going with you,”
“If you’re thinking about fighting me, don’t. I am not Aurelius. I will hurt you, and I will like it. Be a good girl, and later I’ll give you a knife to stab me with. You know how much that turns me on, hellhound,”
“What happened is you infected my soul and placed yourself in an exceedingly dangerous position. The sole person I would ignite the entire world for is tied to the one person I would give an entire world to burn.”
It was impossible to think about anything but how deep he could fuck me at this angle. I was broken and dark, and that just proved it.
“Pet, if you think I’ve ruined your life, you don’t give me enough credit. Things are just getting started.”
“And I promise you, there is no other threat to your life. I will be the only one that kills you.”
He pressed his mouth to mine in a devouring kiss, still holding my face. There was probably a puddle beneath me, I was so wet.
“You’ve got it all wrong, pet. Hell is in here, where the devil is.”
“Your life,” he said, leaning back once more, “and death mean more to me than anything. Because of that, I must leave you here.”
“What do you not understand, Calypso? I will lie, cheat, steal, and kill just to be close enough so I can taste the spent breath from your lungs. You are my only soul. Without you, I am merely a hollow cavity of flesh, a ghoul that will haunt and track your every step and gambit. Whether you accept it or not, you and I belong together. No two creatures were ever made more perfectly for one another,”
Watch how they hunger for you. We are infatuated with you.
“She is not yours, Aurelius. She will never be yours. For eternity, she is only mine.”
“I’ll eagerly die loving you, Calypso,”
“I—gods, I am in love with you, Mendax,” I panted, completely lost to the ecstasy.
“I will return for you,” he whispered. “From the deepest corner of Tartarus, I would return for you.”
