What Did You Do? (Infatuated Fae, #2)

by Jeneane O'Riley

She had forced me to feel something powerful and deep, and then just took it all away, along with her soft skin and fiery eyes. Their deaths were her fault.

In his delulu era

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.

Copper-tasting saliva coated my tongue, and the tears remained in their bastille. Bleeding for me already?

Every time Eli got close enough to touch, the onyx smoke seemed to whisper a dark warning.

Yes

A single pale-green luna moth fluttered calmly on the screen of my bedroom’s open window.

He's watching

I didn’t give a shit what her name was. Mine was the only name she deserved.

She was a goddess.

I shuddered, feeling my smoke dance across her skin. She liked the feel of it. It reminded her of me.

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.

Hol up

“Chef, return to the kitchen. Bring Caly that special tea in the cabinet please,”

Suspicious

As soon as I spoke, a shiver trickled down my spine like phantom fingers raking over my skin.

Tell her I just needed to be inside of you in one way or another, pet.

Slay omg

No! What the fuck? What. The. Fuck?

YES YES YES

“Have you ever thought about what you’d feel like inside of me?” I blurted.

Well that's blunt

“I’ve always wondered what your abs would feel like. They are so hard. Where else are you hard?” I rasped, running my palm over his crotch.

Bro

“Has bestie always had this package?”

Goodbye ur done im puking

“Because I know you like no one else in this world will ever know you. Because I know you grieve him. As much as you will deny it, I saw you two together. You were falling in love with him and had to take his life.”

“He would have killed you eventually, Calypso. But of course he loved you. He would have been a fool not to, and Mendax was many awful, terrible things, but a fool was not one of them.”

“You should really stop that, Calypso. I’ve had a lot of time on my hands to miss this body of yours,” he stated in something of a command and a whisper.

“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,” his voice whispered across my neck. “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.”

YEAH!!!!!

“As frequently as I have been getting off to the mere thought of you, love, I would fuck you into the dirt under this castle,” he groaned into my neck before grabbing my wrist roughly and stopping my massaging hand. “And you’re very, very wrong. I do want to hurt you. I plan on it. Why do you think I’m here?”

Like the rope of a noose pulling tight and strong, our connection was unwavering.

“Fuck, Caly. I would die for you all over again if it meant I got to watch you in this moment,”

“You shouldn’t have left me then, Calypso. Maybe then I could be a bit more gentle. I wouldn’t have spent so many hours thinking about all the things I would do to you once I found you. How much I’d make you hurt. How hard I would fuck you.”

“You look like a goddess veiled in my cum,” he whispered, leaning in and kissing me so tenderly, I couldn’t imagine never feeling it again.

Goodbye

“The part of the game where I slaughter every member of the Seelie family that took you away from me, starting with the prince.”

Oh slay

“Just before your heart stopped beating, Eli infused you with his power. His Seelie royal powers. It is forbidden in all realms of faerie to disrupt what the Fates have decided, and what’s worse”—Tarani struggled to get the words out—“is now Eli’s life is tied to yours and vice versa. Should one of you be killed, the other will also die.” Her voice cracked on the last words.

Oh Lordy. She got both?

I couldn’t help but think, for as in love with me as Mendax said he was and as unhinged as he was, what would he have done to Saracen, Eli, and Tarani if he were still alive? He would have decimated them for hurting me. What an irony that the only person to ever truly be on my side, I had killed.

“This shit ends now, Calypso,” he spat out, crossing his arms across his toned chest. I sat with my mouth open, dumbfounded. Sweet, gentle, golden-retriever Eli had violently blasted my door open.

Oooo period

“Pretty stupid.” Eli grinned his charming, boyish grin.

Gosh darn it I love a boyish grin

You are with me now…in whatever context you want, Caly. I swear, I will never let anyone hurt you ever again.”

Bro🥺

“You’re tied to me. We can go anywhere the other can safely as far as magical guards are concerned.”

So he can go into unseelie? Does it work like that?

He sighed, dropping his arms at his sides to let his head fall back dramatically. “How old are you, Calypso?” He moved in front of me and put his hands on his hips, then looked down at me with a small smile.

This man is so beautiful in my head. THE DIMPLES!!!

“It’s been a long time since we played together, Cal. We’ve grown up a lot since then,” he whispered. The energy between us had somehow shifted.

Oh😳

“You better stop looking at my mouth that way, or I’ll never be able to walk through town, Cal,” he whispered with a grin.

ELI!!!!!!

There was no way in hell I was putting beetles between my boobs.

I wouldn’t either

Malum Mendax, the Unseelie prince, tilted his head in a chilling movement.

HECK YEAH!!!!!

You’re making this too easy, pet. Run.

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“You’re—you’re dead,” I forced out breathily, trying to jump-start my brain into action. Something was happening in my chest with his closeness and the realization that he wasn’t gone forever. “Only on the inside,” he whispered across my skin, hovering his lips just above where my neck and shoulder met.

Mendax let out a deep sigh. “Make me alive again, Caly.”

This does things to me

“You seem like a smart girl. What’s the main reason women want to poison their husbands? Or the reason two seemingly intelligent women fight? Wake up, child, and use that brain of yours. Get out of Seelie before it’s too late for all of you.”

I feel dumb

Well that’s upsetting

Aurelius confused me. Caly seemed to actually like him, even be close with him. For that alone, he would suffer severely. I’d never had feelings like this before. I didn’t know what to do with them, but I did know even the most minuscule thought of her finding joy in the company of another male made me yearn to pull the veins from someone.

Purrr

In my wildest dreams, I couldn’t have imagined the beauty that emanated from her face when she smiled.

My hearttt

Oh mendax

She would most assuredly be easier to make smile after she cried anyway.

Welp-

“I need her, Walter. I’m inescapably in love with her.”

“She isn’t who you think she is. She killed me. She’s magnificent,” I said, feeling the creases tug at my eyes as they always did whenever I thought about her darkness.

Period!!!