The Exorcism of Faeries (Morbid Realities, #1)

by J.L. Vampa

Outside, the campus was bustling with students, a hint of the approaching autumn on the wind, stirring the leaves that would soon lose their chlorophyll and show the world how beautiful it is to die.

Professor Sonder Murdoch was the cliff-jump that terrified, the majestic wolf that captivated, the risk you knew might kill you, yet you couldn’t pass it up.

Atta pulled her attention away from the morgue of her dreams.

“I’m vintage, darling.”

“Sometimes fear cleanses the soul, Atta. It reminds us to look at the important things we took for granted while at peace.”

If Sonder Murdoch was the dark lord, her soul was begging to be burned to ash.

“If you so much as look at her the wrong way, I’m the one who will make you wish you were dead. That’s who the fuck I am.”

Atta laughed. “You are so strange.” “Says the woman who got in the car with a masked man in the middle of the night and went to a graveyard. On more than one occasion.”

“Well, some would say this is the last vestige of my sanity unfurling.”

“I’ll wait all night if it means you’ll stay.”

“How I thought I was destined to be alone, but it turns out I was starving all these years, waiting for you?”

But then he began a rhythm that felt so familiar it was as if they’d done this countless times. Loved each other countless times in countless other lives, other realities.

“I’m terrified of this world, Sonder. But I don’t fear facing it with you.”

I want to drown in this love, darling, he’d told her one morning when she apologised for hogging the bed.