Amid Clouds and Bones

by Ella Fields

“If you so much as think about playing with anyone but me, I will tie you to this bed with their entrails and paint you in their blood while I fuck you.”

“You must put your mouth on mine and kiss me until I tell you to stop.” My foolish heart skipped. Still, I taunted, “But what if you never do?” “Trust me.” He dropped his forehead to mine. “I never fucking will.”

If he truly was a monster, then I shouldn’t have thought him magnificent. I shouldn’t have stepped closer.

“That doesn’t mean I don’t need you to be as obsessively in love with me as I am with you.”