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I could not remember anything but those dead eyes,
I wish I could say that I made that man suffer—that I put his hands in jars and severed the tongue from his mouth. Instead, I did something far worse. I did nothing.
Will you have just as delicious an expression when I catch you?
My mood was just as grim as my attire.
as men die every day—a cause for celebration.
The elusive creature’s beauty was like a witch must have carved her out from an ancient forest, haunted by spirits of old and harboring centuries of secrets.
Her hair snaked in loose curls over her pale skin all the way past her hips, as if they were drawing a map for the places I wanted to touch.
“I look forward to us, little shadow,” I whispered against her ear, tucking a bit of hair behind it before I allowed her one last night of rest. One more night before our games began.
“Who are you?”
“I am anything you want me to be.”
“I’ll let you decide, one last illusion of autonomy before I devour you.”
Believe me when I say this woman gave me butterflies in my stomach. Though that might just be internal bleeding. Either way, she had charmed me.
I had never been so intimate with death in my lifetime,
“Do you by chance have anything for snake venom?”
“You know, when a snake bites, it is usually because it gave you a fair warning to run.”
I was almost jealous of the clothing clinging to his body, though I was most jealous of that scarf around his neck—which I would love to replace with my hands.
“How are you here?”
“Why would I not be, darling?”
“The venom.”
“My entire body is made of poison.” He laughed. “Or maybe ...
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“I try to kill you, and you take it as flirtation?”
Christ, I am beginning to think he’s less interested in killing me and more interested in courting me.
I would have strung them with hair from my last grand gesture, but I thought using yours would do perfectly well, a more personal touch. —Silas
First rule of being a predator: do not get attached to food.
“You are a fiend,”
“Only for you.”
He gasped against me as he moved his tongue, flexing it forward and curling to hit that forbidden spot that was not often found.
“Red looks good on you,”
“especially when it is blood rushing to your face.”
What will you do now that you’ve been caught on your own terms? You started it this time. You will have to forgive me for what I do next.
hot breath
Ew
She smells like black cherries and cyanide.
The more I observed him, the more I wanted to dissect him and get lost in the details. To open up his chest cavity and pull out all the parts,
“What do you study anyway?”
“The study of bones.
“But you said I could have it all, and that is exactly what I will be taking.”
“Don’t get ahead of yourself.”
“Unless you want me to break you.”
“How does it feel?” He mocked my tone from earlier. “Describe it to me.” “H-hot,” I stuttered. “I’m burning.” “What else?” he murmured into my ear, forcing my hips down again.
“Uh-uh! You should know better than anyone how we ask for things.” He smirked. “I want to hear you beg.”
“Don’t look at me like that,” he said breathlessly, his skin glistening in the warmth. “I won’t be able to stop.” I gave him a drunken smile, high from venom and lust. “Then don’t,”
The warmest embrace from the coldest creature I knew was my only solace.
Her lips tasted so sweet, so alive against mine. She had tasted like many things I would learn to love. It used to be the smell of cherries that I enjoyed the most, or the bitter almond taste that I soon learned was cyanide, or the pollen of formidable flowers of the day. Now, it was the taste of her name on my tongue or mine on hers.
