Amid Clouds and Bones

by Ella Fields

“I’m going to collect my wife.” “Uh, wait.” She scrambled for words. “You cannot just take her, Atakan.” I huffed. “Believe me, I know.” I walked on, wanting to escape the reek in the room. “We’ll need to duel a little first.”

“I might not care for much of anything outside of my desires, but that doesn’t mean I’m completely heartless.” Her hand settled on my hip, and my clinical tone roughened. “That doesn’t mean I cannot love you.” I clasped her chin, my head lowering. “That doesn’t mean I don’t need you to be as obsessively in love with me as I am with you.”