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Was I grabbing his hair? I don’t remember. I must have been. My slut hands.
“There are ways for souls to meet that have nothing to do with distance. I’ve been watching you for years. I’ve been calling out to you. And now, in this place, you can finally hear me.”
“You asked if we knew one another. The answer is yes. You have heard my voice, filtered through the sunlight of your dreams. You have seen my face, hidden in the shadows of your nightmares. And I have watched you for a long time. You are rare. You are perfect.”
His breath tickles my ear. “Say my name.” “Orpheus,” I gasp, arching under him. “Again.” “Orpheus.” The night surrounds us, fading into slow pleasure until the rapture of his touch is all there is. He is all there is. He is everything. And he gives himself willingly.
I make a humiliating sound, a pleading gasp at the back of my throat. “Do not speak of Ian when I am inside you,” Orpheus says softly.
“Come for me,” he says. “Tell me I’m yours.” It’s all too easy to obey. You are mine. Mine. Mine.
“I’ve been waiting so long to meet you,” he says. “I missed you. I’d never met you, but I missed you.”
“Let me show you all the pleasure a human body can sustain, and then I’ll give you more.”
“Speak to her like that again,” Orpheus says in a glassy tone, “And I will make sure you die slowly and in unspeakable agony. You are nothing to her. She is above you, better than you, beyond you in every possible way. She accomplishes with ease what you spent years of your pathetic life trying to do. And yet, you treat her like she’s nothing. You kissed her like she was nothing. You touched her like she was no one. And now, you give her orders, you insult her, and with every breath, you step closer to the edge of a bottomless abyss.”
“Orpheus? Were you going to eat Ian?” “Yes.” The floor falls out from under me. “You eat… people.” “I consume life,” he says. “Vivacity. Souls.”
“Because you have ruined me,” Orpheus says. “I’m broken beyond repair. In this infinite span of worlds, all I see is you. This body, this soul, all belong to you. If you asked me to, I’d die for you.”
Of course he worships me. Of course he would die for me. I can move between worlds. I’m fucking utterly rare. More powerful than anyone else on Earth. And in his words I also hear the unspoken truth, the part he won’t say out loud: I need you.
