I’ll convince her that there isn’t one single part of me that is human. Why choose a man when she can have a beast? The scars she has all over her body that I saw when I was underwater, vibrating, staring up at her back, only a man would harm such perfection. But me? I’ll scar the man who put them on her and then I’ll give her one. Just the one. My bite, claiming her as mine.

