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Tonight, I’m leaving everything behind and reuniting with the one person who always loved me unconditionally. The one who gave me their life.
I trusted him. I was falling for him. I ignored all the signs and my instinct and went to him. I considered him my savior when he’s been my Grim Reaper all along.
He really thinks I had something to do with Arianna’s suicide. Now, I must figure out a way to prove my innocence, and I need to find it quick.
The need to cut off his hand and feed it to the dogs overwhelms me. How fucking dare he touch what’s mine? How dare she fucking let him?
Reina is mine. Fucking mine. And I’ll screw the world so she’ll remain that way.
Reina is mine to rule and own. That’s the only reason I’m letting her get away with occupying my thoughts.
I have a fraction of a second before they take Reina away to God knows fucking where. Reina’s life is mine. Fucking mine. No one gets to take her away from me.
He grabs me by the wrist and pulls me down so hard I shriek, thinking I’ll topple over the edge. Instead, I land in the midst of strong arms. Steel limbs crush me to his chest, his embrace nearly suffocating and yet so…warm. Asher is warm when he chooses to be. It’s just that he rarely allows that part to shine through.
Although I feel lighter now that he knows I’m not Reina, Asher is still one of the villains in my story—if not the most dangerous.
I cover my ignorance by jutting out my chin. “Didn’t you cheat on me?” “No.” “Do you expect me to believe that?” “I don’t care what you believe. I don’t have the time or energy to focus on anyone else.”
When I was a teenager, I yearned to own those eyes, to trap them somewhere and have them only look at me. Years later, nothing has changed, only now, I’m more forthcoming about my methods.
“How long do you intend to stay?” “As long as I please.” I have all my stuff in my car and will bring it up later. I’m not leaving Reina this time.
I want her to want me as much as I want her. She’s been giving me fucking blue balls for years.
“Thanks, Gray!” She throws her arms around my neck in a hug. “You’re the best brother in the world.” No, I’m the worst. Because I don’t want to share Reina. Not even with my sister.
I don’t want to have parts of Asher while he keeps the others hidden. I want the light and the darkness. The sanity and the madness. The beauty and the ugliness. I want everything. Just like I need him to accept me whole.
I love it when he lets go of his cool façade and shows me his true unhinged self. Because I know he’s only like this with me.
It’s the Asher effect. He shredded my soul apart and carved himself a cozy place in there.
Yes, I have a problem when it comes to Reina. Even I admit it. But she’ll catch a cold with the amount of perspiration sticking to her skin.
Awe <3
Those who say physical pain is the worst have never experienced being tortured by their own brain.
“Is there a point to your call?” I shake my head. “Shouldn’t you be cuddling with Elsa and making babies?” “Don’t ever mention my wife’s name and making babies in the same sentence or I’ll fucking kill you. Deal? Deal.”
It’s a weird thing, guilt. It’s able to eat you from the inside out and you get no chance to fight.
A larger than life presence stops behind me. His warmth envelops me like a cocoon. I don’t even have to look back to know who it is.
I love it when he kisses me like he’s been starving for me, like he can’t survive without kissing me. Asher and I should have been kissing for years. Why did we take so long to do something so natural?
“Let me talk to Jason alone.” The slight improvement of his mood vanishes, and his hold tightens around my hand. “Fuck. No.” “Hear me out.” “No, and that’s final. There’s no fucking way I’m leaving you alone with him.” This isn’t the time for his jealous possessive episodes, dammit.
We weren’t even in an actual relationship and he hated me, but he still remained faithful to me. He didn’t consider the other girls because he couldn’t stop thinking about me.
“Why Cloud003, though?” I murmur in my sleepy haze. “Cloud because of Gray, my middle name. 003 because of the day I first met you, January 3rd. It’s the reason behind this room number, too—1003.” I smile against his skin. Damn this man and the lengths he went to for this. I love you, my mind screams. I love you so much, and it kills me to think you don’t feel the same.
“I don’t want to fight. Not tonight.” I wrap my arms around his midsection and bury my face in his chest. His strong hand covers the small of my back as he buries his nose in my hair, inhaling me in. “I don’t want to fight either. Not tonight, not ever.”
“Are you running away from me, prom queen?” “No.” Yes. “You can’t leave me, not anymore.” His lips brush against mine in a brief, heartbreaking kiss. “You’re my world now.”
Now that I know what Ari did, I’ll never let Reina out of my sight. Even before knowing Ari’s plans, I was already figuring out a way to keep Reina. I meant it—I can’t stay away.
“Check your vest,” says the man at my side. His name is Kyle, as Alexander introduced us. No idea if that’s a real name or an alias, but I don’t give two fucks right now. If he has the skills to get Reina out of that hellhole then he can be an alien for all I care.
I should probably feel something about seeing three people murdered, but I don’t. They took Reina from me and they deserve a fate worse than death.
Reina always said shit about wanting to leave, and this better not be the time she decides to do that. I can’t possibly live in a world without her anymore.
