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“I don’t make it a habit to seek out trouble.” He raised a single, silvery brow. “Don’t you, though? You claim I took the time to warn you away and yet here you are.” She opened her mouth to retort until she realized he was right. To him, it probably did seem like she was a glutton for punishment. “Well, I didn’t use to,” she muttered
Ophelia didn’t bother looking back at the Phantom as she snapped, “I thought I told you not to follow me?” “I apologize if I gave you the impression that I do what I’m told.”
“You have a response for everything, don’t you?” “Yes.” He winked, and she hated herself for thinking that the gesture was attractive. She couldn’t help it, though. Everything about him was frustratingly attractive. It was hard not to be keenly aware of that fact when he kept taking up all her space.
Excuse me for not just taking the word of a Ghost who keeps stalking me.” “Stalking is a bit dramatic,” he drawled. She only glared at him.
What if I had said it was the greatest pleasure I’ve ever known?” The mischievous glint in his eyes was back in full force as he leaned down. “If you thought that was your threshold of pleasure—imagine being worshipped by the real thing.”
It was as if he had suddenly woken her and made her realize just how untouched she’d been all this time and now she would starve without his hands and mouth running over every inch of her skin.
“What would you suggest we do to bide our time?” A wicked smirk. “Nothing that involves keeping our clothes on.” “Please don’t make this hard.” The smirk grew into a full-blown grin. “Well, technically you’re the one—” “If you are about to make some ridiculous innuendo involving the word hard”—she pointed at him with the hairbrush—“swallow your tongue.” He made a show of sighing heavily as if not getting to finish his joke was deeply inconvenient for him.
“I can fix myself without your help.” She huffed. “I was just under a lot of stress. It gets louder when I’m stressed.” “Ophelia.” His tone was firm now. “You don’t need to fix yourself. You’re not broken. But it’s okay to get outside help if it gets too loud.”
His hips bucked. “Fuck,” he groaned. “I take back what I said about you being angelic.” She cleared her throat. “Is it okay if I—” “You can do anything you want, angel,” he inserted, voice gruff. “I’d let you drag me to the depths of Hell right now if that would please you.”
She hummed in contentment as he pressed hot kisses over the base of her throat and behind her ear. “If there were ever a divine entity I’d worship,” he murmured, “it’d be you.”
Her voice broke now. “Your touch means fucking everything. And that’s why we can’t cross that line again.” He grasped her face in his hands. “In a different life, in a fair one, I would’ve kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust,” he vowed to her.
“In all the darkness, in all the loneliness, you have been my one source of light,” he lamented as she began to come undone. “My soul will go to its grave with your name echoing in my mind.”
“I have an array of emotions for him,” Ophelia muttered. “He can be quite the pain in the ass, I assure you.” Genevieve’s grin was absolutely scandalized. “Oh, I bet he can be—”
I am exhausted.” Genevieve snorted. “I’m sure you are after all that energy the two of you probably burned earlier.” Ophelia’s face heated for the millionth time in the last hour, but Blackwell was grinning like a fiend.
“If I agree to be your new tether,” she began, her vision beginning to blur, “what would that entail?” “Forever. With me.” “And?” He smirked. “Is that not enticing enough for you?”
“Forever is a very long time,” he warned. “Are you sure you know what you’re agreeing to?” “I know,” she promised. “Especially considering I’m going to have to deal with your mouth for eternity. I don’t take that lightly.” “Please,” he drawled. “We both know how much you love my mouth.” She glowered. “I am already regretting this, honestly.”
But… every single second I’ve spent with you has reminded me what it’s like to be alive. And I would trade every other soul in the world if it meant I would get to keep you forever.”
