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My heart throbs with an agonizing ache as I rip my gaze away, shift his arm to the side, and sit up. I drop inside myself and begin shucking the beautiful memory of all the warm, lustrous layers that could make me want to stay and live this past slumber again, and again, and again. Forever.
A perfect excuse to draw the pleasure out and put off the painful bit. But I’ve been doing that for the past who the heck knows how long, and all it’s done is land me on this big, comfortable pallet with the male, nuzzling his hand. Indulging in a love I’ll never be able to keep.
I’ll be on your fucking heels for the rest of eternity until you decide you’re ready to face your past.”
“Fuck your deals.” “No, Raeve. Fuck yours,”
“I spent over a hundred phases crushed beneath the weight of your death, wrecking myself, trying to shed the hurt from my heart. Do you know how much easier it would’ve been to simply remove you from my mind?” I groan as he pumps me full, my body singing for his ministrations, wet sounds filling the room. “But I didn’t, because I’m not a fucking coward.”
“You don’t get to treat me like a secret this time,” he grinds out, strumming my clit with his thumb. My pleasure begins to peak, a mighty wave cresting— “I’m not your secret. I’m your truth.”
don’t accept your deal. But I will offer you a new one that’s favorable to all parties—not just your own selfish whims.”
“Any lost opportunity to worship you is a tragedy.”
“I have them too,” I whisper, and the Moonplume blinks. I swallow the swelling lump in my throat and study those welts, moving forward a step. Another. “You can’t see mine,” I rasp, stepping over a web of hairline cracks in the ground. “Not anymore.” I release my truth like a charred skeleton dredged up from the shore of my icy lake, spat on the stone beside this beautiful, broken creature.
“Come back to me, Raeve. To us.”

