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She might not know it yet, but that achromo was his. And he intended to take her.
She was a rare and delicate creature, if a little ugly, and he had captured her.
His nature screamed that he had claimed her. This woman was his. He’d hunted her. He’d bested her. And now, she was his to do with as he wished.
Mira was a means to an end. That was all.
Not death for him. But for her.
They were too different. Life did not want them together. Neither did their people.
She’d fooled herself into thinking this monster had feelings when he didn’t in the slightest. She was just a job. Duty, honor, a creature he had to put up with while he was forced to understand her language.
She hated it. She didn’t want to die, but she wanted him to look at her even less. He didn’t get to... stare. He didn’t.
He would keep them both. Because he wanted that future with her. But he also wanted to see her city fall.
Together, even in death.
Mira. I wish for you to return to the sea with me.”
He didn’t want a future without her in it, even though there were countless things he had yet to discover. He looked forward to learning more about her, and her kind, but mostly he just wanted to see her smile like this.
Oh, he had never known she could be more captivating, and here she was. Starting to acclimate to his world without needing her devices and he... He was undone.
“You’ve already shown me so much, Arges. You’ve gifted me the sea in ways I never even dreamt of. How could I ask you to show me the land as well?” He didn’t reply, but she wondered if he wanted to say he would give her anything. Because that was exactly how she was feeling right now.
“I don’t want you to go.” He froze in front of her before quietly asking, “What did you say?” “I don’t want you to go,” she repeated. “I don’t like being here alone. Without you.” “You have your metal box to speak with.” “It’s not the same.”
want to know everything about you, even if those discoveries come without words.” Surely, he understood what she was saying. His black eyes searched hers, and then his hands spasmed against her hips. “Kairos, I believe there are perhaps some translation difficulties regarding what you just said.” “There are no translation issues.”
If they wanted her dead, she would die. And her only regret would be that Arges himself hadn’t killed her. At the very least, she would have respected a death at the hands of an undine like him.
“For us, it is a fleeting but crucial moment. An ephemeral rightness of time and place. A moment that brings you to where you were supposed to be.”
You have captured my heart, stolen it just as you have my attention and my time. I cannot let you go. I would be denying my heart the reason it beats.”
“So you like gentle touches. That’s what you say?” “Human women do.” She stared down at his black eyes, already burning with so much passion it made her heart speed up. “The men maybe prefer more forceful touches.” “I don’t want to talk about other men.”
There was only wonder, and the realization that she couldn’t ever leave him. Not after this. Fuck, she was in love with an undine.
He had failed his people. He had failed his mate. This rotting future reeked of despair, and he had no idea how to fix it.
He was an outcast to his people but he... he loved her. Very much. And she loved him in return." It was possible. They weren't the first.
"I can't breathe." "The sea is no place for your kind, achromo. This is proof of that."
“Fuck, woman. You shouldn’t react like that when I tell you I murdered someone for you.”
“I will find this daughter,” he growled. “And she will be mine.”
