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Little Flame—Scarlett—decided it was time to grace us all with her presence.
Only I was allowed to creep on Scarlett.
That mouth. That filthy, beautiful, spiteful little mouth.
Little Flame had a savior, and he was not me.
“I’m sorry. She didn’t deserve this fate. No one does. But she sure as fuck doesn’t deserve your sacrifice. And that’s what you’d be doing if you stayed here. You’d be sacrificing yourself for nothing. Her fate is sealed, but yours isn’t.”
I was merely prey caught in her web, a willing votary at her temple, no matter how much I fantasized about my Scarlett on her knees calling me God.
“Why. Are. You. Here?”
“That’s a good girl,”
“You will never, under any circumstances, go downstairs,” he said.
I was horribly, irreversibly, fucking insatiably obsessed with her.
She didn’t know it yet, but she was mine.
Her safety and comfort were priceless to me. She’d understand this very soon.
A fucked-up fantasy to have in this moment, yes, but that was her fault for making me unable to go a full five minutes without thinking about her.
“If you ever again accuse me of doing business with the born, let alone profiting off human slavery, I will make you fucking beg to be put in your place.”
“Because I enjoy it, and you’re the only one I have any desire to treat as my toy.”
“Because you have a big heart,” he said with a cold, sinister smile. “And seeing your lovers lose appendages or disappear off the face of the earth might make it crack a little. I don’t want to see you hurt.”
“I will ruin all others for you, Scarlett,” he said. “Anything else but us will only feel empty, meaningless, soulless. I will be the only thing you can see, the only being worthy of touching you, of seeing all of you.”
“You’re disgusting,” I attempted. “What, am I not supposed to get aroused from the beautiful sound of you gagged and struggling?”
“And now I’m imagining you in various gags. They might be necessary for a mouthy brat like you until you learn even a modicum of respect.”
I was beginning to understand that Rune was some ...
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“Baby, if you wanted my attention, you could’ve just used your words,”
And not because, most terrifying of all, when I was with him, I didn’t feel so alone anymore.
“I made you more wet just now than he could’ve managed after a lifetime of practice.”
I thought I was the insane one in this relationship, but this girl was absolutely giving me a run for my fucking money.
Who the fuck taught her to flinch?
“What is it, Little Flame? Tell me. Let me help.”
“And yet you burn. Despite everything you’ve endured, all the pain and the loneliness and the grief and the betrayal, you burn fucking blindingly, like you can’t help but be anything less than radiantly alive. In you I see hope that never dies, and some might call it weak or naive, but I think it’s the most beautiful thing about you, this radical choice to be open and warm in a world that is overwhelmingly cold and brutal.”
Scarlett’s darkness was just as captivating and endlessly intriguing as her light.
“I will earn your trust,” I said. “And then I will demand everything from you. Your secrets, your desires, your needs, and your every last dream. I will make sure you live the life you have always deserved.”
“Use your words, baby,”
“Scarlett, my beautiful, helpless toy, I will bring you more depraved ecstasy than you could ever conceive. I will bring you to the edge of your limits, flood you with so much pleasure and sensation that your body will give out, and then I’ll do it all over again. I will find and exploit your every weakness and use them to both satisfy and torment you endlessly. I will fuck your perfect mind even harder and deeper than I will fuck your divine body. I will make you the best, strongest, most powerful version of yourself. I will destroy you and remake you in my image as your Master and God.”
“Don’t you fucking dare,”
“You’re a needy little mess, aren’t you?”
“I would only ever hurt and violate you after you begged me for it, you see.”
Right now, you exist only to feel pleasure. You have no other purpose.”
“That’s it, such a good girl,”
“See, now that’s simply not true,”
“Scarlett,” he said in my ear. “Spread your legs, or I will do it for you.”
“That’s a good little toy.”
“This is going to be a fun problem,”
“One day, I’m going to stretch you out, baby. And you will take it and thank me for every inch.”
“You’re so pretty when you’re putting that spiteful little mouth to good use,”
“You were so good for me, tonight. Absolutely perfect.”
“You don’t believe in your own perfection yet, but one day you will. I’ll make sure you see yourself the way I do even if I have to destroy the entire realm to do it.”
Because it was only through knowing the darkness that I could one day find myself drowned in light.
“There are many people in this world who would love nothing more than to clip your wings. Stop doing it for them. Soar instead.”
She’d better fucking not. I’d force my blood right back down that pretty little throat.
“Don’t you dare give up, Little Flame. Or I swear I will fight Helia herself to drag you right back down here to live in hell with me.”
Because when I thought she’d died in my arms, I felt my soul reach for hers, and I swore to the gods that hers had reached right back.
“You are here, in this room, with me. And there’s no safer place in this world for you.”
