In Her Shadow

by Lilah Raine

“Ren, you might get me pregnant.” She pushes against my chest, but it’s too late, her words set me off and my cock is already pumping her full of my seed. “I told you, Kitten. You're mine now.” I kiss her before she can argue, then holding her hips tight...

“You speak, I’ll listen,”

“Ren. You just…you just came inside me!”

Whoever this man is, he’s got me acting against all my better judgment.

“Taste the mess I made out of you, Kitten.”

“You just sold your soul to the devil, pretty girl,”

“I mean, that's if you want to do this again, there's no pressu–”

“Eloise, you're mine now. I warned you of that before we got started.”

“No, it was a straight up fucking warning that I’m not gonna be hiding in the shadows, anymore. You summoned me, and now I’m here.”

“Then we need to take measures. I’ll arrange an appointment with my doctor. Work’s busy at the moment, but I can try and get an extended lunch hour.”

“I have a friend who’s a pharmacist; he can fix me up with anything.”

“A dodgy pharmacist buddy?” I show him how unimpressed I am with the idea,

“Can he get the Plan B One-Step, too?” I ask,

“You're lying, you were far too good at that not to have done it before. You seemed to know my body better than I do.”

“I mean this, being with someone, eating dinners together, staying over.”

“I never invited you to stay.” I fold my arms cleverly.

“You know what I mean. I’ve never had someone before. You might have to give me some leeway. I don’t know if you noticed,...

“I’m not the kind of guy ...

“I’ll test them, but I’d never push. I’m nothing like those other guys that hurt you,”

“Eloise.” I try shaking her awake, but she still moans in her sleep. Her body is thrashing like she’s trying to get away from something, and her skin is so sticky from sweat that I pull back the covers to get her some air.

“That’s right, come back to me,”

“It’s me, you're safe now. They can’t hurt you,” I assure her.

“Mine, Eloise. They’re dead, they can’t hurt you,”

“You hear me, don’t you? They’re dead, they can’t hurt you.”

“Because I know everything about you, Eloise Meadows. Everything.”

She’s not ready to know that the reason I know those assholes are dead is because I ended them myself. I don’t think she ever will be.

I have to ensure that I keep her somehow. I can’t go back to being the guy who just watches her. A long time ago, Eloise filled the empty void inside me, and now I’m going to fill the empty void inside her. She’ll be mine to breed, mine to take care of, and mine to worship.

“Are you going to come inside me again?” she asks, wrapping her arms around my neck and looking between our bodies.

“Kitten, I intend to come inside you for the rest of your life.”

“Guess we really do need to get that pill now.” She giggles cluelessly, having no idea how her life is about to change.

How are you supposed to tell a girl that you’ve been following her every move for the last fifteen years?

How do you explain that you have cameras and microphones hidden all around her house so you don’t miss a single detail of her life?

That you killed her prom date for the way he hurt her feelings, and that her daddy didn’t hang himself, it was me who tied the noose...

“What sort of time do you call this?” he answers in that over-exaggerated English accent of his that always makes my eyes roll.

The guy hasn’t lived in England since he was twelve.

“You know, one day one of those barbaric illegal fights is going to k...

I need something that will pass as a Plan B, and a few months' supply of a contraceptive pill minus the contraceptive,” I explain.

I’ve always had the sense that I was put on this earth solely for her.

Eloise Meadows has owned me from the second we met.

I’m the man she invited throu...

Eloise, lying on a blanket in a field full of flowers and looking up at the sun. Her hands are resting on the big, round tummy that grows our child, and the smile on her face is infectious.

“Come on, say something.” I wait for my friend to respond to everything I just told her.

“Say something? Girl, I’m still in shock.”

As promised, Kitten Ren

“Are you looking for your stalker friend?”

“Because if you are, he’s right over there.”

I see him casually slouched back in the shadows with his arms stretched out across the back, his knee bent, and his foot up on the seat beside him.

His eyes go narrower as he watches me get closer,

I stand in the gap between his legs, he looks up at me and remains silent.

“I don’t remember inviting you along,...