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Jenika Snow
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April 24 - April 27, 2025
I’d go to the diner tomorrow night. I’d watch her, talk to her. I couldn’t help it, because the truth was, for the first time in my miserable fucking existence, I had a weakness… and that was Lina. And, God help her, I didn’t want to be strong.
I hadn’t admitted it before, hadn’t let it really grow inside me until this very moment, but as I stared into Lina’s horrified eyes, I knew without a doubt I’d burn Desolation—the entire fucking world—if it meant having her as mine. Because I’d never let her go, and the look in her eyes told me she realized it too.
A. Fucking. Look. That’s all it took to go down this rabbit hole where, for the first time in my miserable life, I questioned my very sanity. For the first time in my life, I want something just for me.
“Interesno, kak by vy otreagirovali, yesli by uznali, chto ya skazal im, chto pererezhu im glotku, yesli oni khotya by posmotryat na vas.”
When he reached up and smoothed his thumb along my cheek, I closed my eyes and leaned into his touch. He felt so good, his skin warm, his hand big. “Ya by ubil lyubogo, kto pytalsya zabrat' tebya u menya.”
“Moye serdtse bolit, kogda ya smotryu na tebya.” His voice was deep and low but still had the intense effect of moving over every inch of my body and lighting it up.
“Dlya tebya ya sdelayu eto bezopasnym.” I almost moaned at the way his deep voice moved over me as he said the Russian words.
He leaned down and started kissing me deeply. “So sweet.” Arlo was breathing so hard. “S toboy ya teryayu kontrol.”
“I’ll need to have my face buried between these pretty pale thighs every fucking night just to get my fix.”
“You’re mine, Galina.” His words sounded final. “Ya ub'yu lyubogo, kto popytayetsya zabrat' tebya u menya.” “You’ve said that before. What does it mean?” He was silent for long moments, and I could imagine he was trying to think of a lie, but what he uttered told me it was the absolute truth. “It means… I'll kill anyone who tries to take you from me.”
“It means ‘my light.’ That’s what you are to me, Galina. You’re my light in all the darkness that surrounds me.”
“Do you want me to lose control, moy svet? Do you want a gentleman or a monster fucking you for the first time?”
“Tell me who owns this, who you belong to, Galina, and I’ll give you what you want.”
“I’ll give you the world, every single fucking thing I am, baby.” “Arlo, oh God. You, Arlo. Everything I am belongs to you.”
“So you’re saying this virgin pussy is all mine? Mine to lick, to suck… to fuck as hard as I want?”
“So hot and sweet. You’ll be so fucking tight gripping my cock as I fuck you, as I put my claim on this untouched cunt.”
“You know how possessive it makes me, knowing I’ll be the only fucking man to ever see you like this?”
“When I come, it’s going to be with my cock inside you and you taking every single last drop.”
“Look at how I broke you, took your innocence… made it fucking mine.”
Come closer, Galina. Come closer to the wolf who’s so hungry he’ll devour you without a thought.
“Moy svet. I love you as much as my dead, dark, and twisted heart can love anything so light and beautiful. I’ll love you until I can’t love anymore, and only then it’ll be because I’m dead and rotting in the ground.”
“You’re mine, and I will never let you go.”
“Without you, there is no me, Galina. And if that’s love, then I love you so fucking much I’d tear my heart out and give it to you in offering just so you could see my loyalty, my determination… that within this monster, I am just a man needing the most important person in his life. You.”
“Ya nikogda ne znal, chto znachit byt' zhivym, prezhde chem ty byl moim.”
