The Finisher (Dark Verse, #4)

by RuNyx

"What's a little rainbow like you doing in a shithole like this?" he murmured as he inhaled the side of her neck, so softly she felt his words more than heard them. She knew she had a colorful personality, but she'd never been called a rainbow before, and the way he said it was nice, really nice.

He was her love at first meeting. And she didn’t know who he was now, but he was hers. He’d always been hers.

“I don’t know how, rainbow,” he murmured softly, “and I don’t know what secrets

of mine you have, but I want them all. You’ve sealed your fate now. Welcome to my hell.”

"I want to eat your smile, sunshine," he said against her mouth. "Swallow it whole and light up my insides with it."

"My sunshine. Lighting me up from the insides."

“I might not remember you,” he whispered, his lips almost at hers. “But you’re my wife now. Mine. And I’d bathe this whole city in blood before I let you change that.”

“My life has been nothing but gray for as long as I remember,” he told her softly. “Rainstorms and thunder clouds that never went away. You filtered through that, all bright colors and exuberance and life. And the clouds are still there, but my eyes can’t leave the rainbow long enough to see them. You changed things. And I’m not letting that go, Zephyr.

I’m not letting you go. Get that out of your head right now.”

“I didn’t realize how much I missed your touch. You gave a starved man a feast every day until he forgot what hunger felt like, and then took it away.”

“I think”—he settled in comfortably, tilting her hips and opening her up, watching her with that golden stare—“you’re both my rainbow and my treasure at the end of it. And nothing”— bite— “will”—lick— “ever”—suck—“compare.”

"Don't leave me again, rainbow," he spoke quietly in the space between them. "I don't know if I'll ever remember anything. I don't know if what I feel is love. I don't know what the future holds. But I know I want you by my side. I know I don't want to forget you now."

"I'm not going anywhere, handsome. I've loved you as a boy, and I love you as a beast. All of you has always been loved by me."