Playful bites and trails of teeth raked across my cleavage. Mendax lifted his head to look deep into my eyes. “How does it feel?” he said, breathing heavily. “To know that I love you and that you have doomed me? That you and only you have the power to disarm and debilitate me. That you, a human, have dismantled every part of me and rebuilt it as a shrine in your honor.” His pupils were blown out, eyes almost completely black now.
