Obsession

by Harleigh Beck

Someone is stalking and preying on my woman, and that pisses me off. No one gets to stalk her but me. No one gets to claim her but me.

Looks like I have another kill to add to my growing list. No one messes with what’s mine and lives to see another day.

“You should have learned by now that I don’t take well to other men touching what’s mine.”

“You want me to kill you, baby? Is that what you want? Because I will if you’re not careful.”

“I love blood because it’s the one thing we all have that makes us equals. It doesn’t matter who you are. Rich, poor, barely scraping by or owning a yacht. We all bleed.” Crouching down with his back to me, he opens the box. “Once you strip away all the bullshit, we all bleed red.”

“You know…nothing turns me murderous quite like the thought of you hurting Savannah. My Savannah. Who else was involved? Keith, Mark, you, and who else? I want names.”

Robbie, who’s too scared to get close, thinks it’s a good idea to gift me body parts. What happened to flowers and chocolates?

I don’t like how powerless she makes me feel, yet I can’t stay away. I don’t want to stay away. Not when she’s the sun that parts the clouds or the silence that calms the voices inside my head.

“Don’t piss me off, Savannah. You’re mine and only mine. If you kiss him, I’ll kill you both. And I’ll enjoy every minute.”

“Don’t forget who owns you, beautiful. If you provoke me, you won’t like the consequences.”

“Savannah is all I can think about. She’s beneath my skin and inside my veins, demanding my full attention. Demanding that I kill for her.”

“Don’t you get it? I don’t have a choice. I’m his… When they strap him to that gurney and pump his veins full of poison, I’ll die right along with him. But for now, no matter how brief, I’ll seize this moment. Maybe that makes me crazy, but at least I’m alive again. At least he’s silencing my nightmares.”

“This is me, baby. Your very own monster.”

“All of you belongs to me,” he says. “There’s not a part of you I want to share with the world.”

“There are no lengths I won’t go for Savannah. I’ll murder time and time again to keep her at my side.”

“If you ever so much as look in another man’s direction again, I will peel your skin off your body. You hear me, baby? I will take my fucking time, torturing you slowly.”

“Fuck, you kill me,” I growl, kissing her again and nipping her bottom lip. “When will I get enough of you? When will I stop craving you like this?”