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“Don’t sell yourself short, my lady.” A lazy grin pulls at his full lips. “You threw four daggers at my face.” “Pity none of them hit their target.”
“You know, if you keep asking me to reveal myself,” I whisper, “I’m going to take it the wrong way.” He bites his lip to stop a smile. “Then they’d really have a reason to stare.”
“Is that why you continuously seek my company?” I ask. “Because you’re afraid of the dark?” His eyes widen innocently. “There’s safety in numbers.” I arch a brow. “You just watched me kill a man.” “Eh.” He shrugs, waving off my recent homicide. “Three’s a crowd.”
“What happened to your fear of the dark?” I mutter as I turn in the opposite direction. “Your warm presence cured me of it.” His gravelly voice drifts through the night, startling me.
A wicked gleam enters his eyes. “Are you the one making threats now?” I shrug. “Perhaps.” “Oh please, continue.” His tongue darts across his bottom lip, drawing my gaze. “How would you ruin me, Angel?”
“If you tell me his name, I’ll make him regret ever laying a hand on you.”
I learned long ago that the horrors we hide within our minds are never destroyed—we merely save them for later. They always find their way to surface.
“For such a beautiful angel, your hobbies veer toward the demonic.” I shrug. “Even angels have their vices.”
“What a strange dream I’m having,” he murmurs. “I’d prefer to be described as a nightmare.”
“She’s a fine illusion,” he concedes. “But I prefer the original over the imitation.”
“A king merely rules, but a God dominates.”
“Tell me, Angel, if I keep touching you, will you ignite in my arms?” I pull against my restraints, desperate to touch him too. “I’d burn you alive.”
“There’s that lying tongue I adore so much,”
“I’m not frightened of the violence inside of you. There’s no crime you could commit that would turn me away.”
“I’ve seen your body before, Ivy. The image is seared into my brain.”
“Let me be here with you until it starts,” I whisper. “Please don’t let this be the moment you stop reaching for me.”
