Into the Dark

by Dana Isaly

“I don’t know how to feel those things,” he finally admits. “All I know is that I don’t want you to leave. So I’m not letting you leave.” I grab his face and make him look at me. It’s ridiculous he would ever think I would want to. He gives me everything I want. I don’t need love. I have never needed love. “I don’t want to leave. And I don’t need your feelings. I need you to devour and dominate me. I need to be a part of your every waking thought. I need you to want me, not love me. Love can be broken. Love can fade. Love ends in cheating and divorces and trauma.” He blinks and looks like he wants to interrupt me but lets me carry on my rant. “Obsession doesn’t fade. Obsession dominates and controls us. It monopolizes our thoughts and our actions to the point we can’t see past it. That’s what you are to me, Elijah. You destroy anything else in my line of sight. You are it for me. Every part of my body cries out for you.”