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Please suspend your disbelief for this monster fucker book. It’s a book about fucking mermen. Let’s not get into a scientific conversation about whether the bends would happen or if she could die doing half the stuff she does.
His black tail, so long it tangled in the kelp, was at least ten feet long. Blue slashes of fins, so deep they blended in with the water, undulated all along the black scales. It stretched up to his waist, seamlessly turning into that pale, almost gray skin. His body was as all the rumors claimed. So handsome it was painful to look at, and eerily like the gold sculptures that surrounded her.
She might not know it yet, but that achromo was his. And he intended to take her.
Oh, how he adored that expression. She wanted to fight him. He could see that.
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.
“Oh, I am still angry with you. Very, very angry.” He pressed his teeth to her neck, pleased with the little noise she made in the back of her throat. “But there are other ways to punish you, kairos.”
Outside of the home, he’d found two skeletons. One that was clearly of her people, the bones of her legs had been eerily interesting. And laid out next to her were the bones of one of his own kind. A massive male, with a tail nearly twice as long as Arges’s, speaking of his age and power. They had been curled up next to each other, almost as though the sea didn’t even dare move their skeletons. Together, even in death.
“Well?” She shook her head at him, clearly disappointed by something he’d said. “Men. It doesn’t matter if you live underneath the sea or in the cities, you never say compliments easily. This is the first time you’ve seen me out of a wetsuit and that’s all you have to say?”
He had only wanted her more. Wanted to dig himself into her skin and coil around her heart until he was wrapped so firmly around it that he knew it would only beat for 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.”
“Fuck, woman. You shouldn’t react like that when I tell you I murdered someone for you.”
“You are a gift from the sea, Mira. A rare pearl I am so lucky to have found. I do love you, you know. More than anything else in this world. You hold my soul in your chest. Wherever you go, I will never be far from you.”
