The Finisher (Dark Verse, #4)

by RuNyx

and the pain. Oh, the sweet, bitter pain. 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.

“You’re a twisted beast. I’m a twisted beauty. We’re totally meant to be, handsome. It's written in the fairytales.”

“You talk to my wife, you die,” he announced coldly. Dante whistled in the distance, and Zephyr flushed. That was the most 'Me Tarzan, You Jane'

"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." Zephyr melted against him, her eyes burning as he continued speaking. "You make me want to be a better man for you." Oh god, he was going to make her cry.

“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.”