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My dick throbbed in my jeans as my smile slipped away and I couldn’t force out the memory of having him on his knees before me. How fucking good his mouth had felt wrapped around my cock and how spectacularly fucking dumb I’d been to start thinking it had meant something more than that to him.
“Yes, master,” I whispered.
“Why?” I breathed and something in his gaze shattered as he opened his mouth to give me my answer. “Because I’m dying, Roxy.”
“You’re a good man, Darius. So much better than the monster who tried to forge you in his image. The world will be a far emptier place without you in it.”
“I’m so fucking angry with you, Darius,” Roxy breathed, her voice laced with pain which I wished I could banish. “I’m sorry, baby,” I said, knowing it didn’t fucking matter how sorry I was. “I’m really, really angry,” she reiterated, her wings flaring at her spine as fire danced in her eyes. “But…I'm not going to waste the time we do have on that feeling.”
“Marry me, Roxy,”
“Stay with me, Darius,”
“Then I’ll marry you,” she replied. “No bullshit. Just us.”
do not die in vain! Into the evermore I go - I love you, my lady!” she cried as I closed my teeth around her body, ripping and tearing until her screams were cut off, tossing her away from me like a ragdoll as she left a trail of blood through the dirt then fell into the hole she’d cast to trap me, tumbling away into the dark.
The moment I had contact with all of them, I tugged on my power, snapping my fist closed and taking hold of the blood in their veins, freezing it solid in a single heartbeat and all four of them fell crashing to the stone floor of the courtyard dead before they’d even realised that they were under attack. It took a good chunk of my power and I released a long breath from the exertion.
“I will pay any price for her. Name it, and swear she’ll be free,” I demanded and she considered that, a look in her pitch black eyes that said this was what she’d hoped for all along. And it made my stomach twist that I was playing so easily into her hands, but Darcy had to be free. I would do whatever had to be done to ensure that.
“Three moon cycles,” she confirmed, reaching out to touch my throat and I felt a collar of shadow winding around it, cinching tight.
“I have loved you unconditionally from the moment I first found out I was having you. You are my starlit boy, my light in the dark and I am so endlessly proud of the man you have become, my love,” I said, feeling the cold taste of goodbye on my tongue and knowing it was the only way. “Why are you saying that?” Xavier growled as he pushed himself to sit up, but I knew he knew.