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“But I’ve never… I didn’t…” He fell silent. I licked my lips. “What triggered it?” I asked, dreading the answer that I thought I knew was coming. Aury watched me, and for a second he looked scared of what my reaction would be if he admitted the truth. “They hurt you,” he whispered,
“But you… you said you couldn’t control it. Right?” Aury shook his head. “When I saw that raider hit you, it just… came out.” His eyes filled with tears. “I couldn’t stop it.”
“Are you… worried that you might hurt me?” Aury shook his head. “No. I know deep down I never would. I couldn’t. I knew that even when I was…”
“Don’t fucking move,” a soldier shouted, and then all four guns were pointing at me, because I was still in front of Aury. I knew what was going to happen even before I felt Aury’s body begin to vibrate against my back.
This time when he turned to face me, I could see only grim determination in his features. He’d protected me, and he wasn’t sorry about it.
I did the least tough-raider-living-in-an-apocalyptic-wasteland-infested-with-monsters thing that I possibly could. I burst into tears.
I now knew he was the thing all other monsters feared the most,
“It’s… Rig is gone. Not dead,” she clarified quickly when my breath whooshed out of me in an awful rush. “He went—he went with Mary.”
I finally understood Anchor’s unwavering refusal to believe Cat was dead. That determination to ignore the most obvious answer. The crushing hopelessness that left you unable to move forward, keeping you frozen in place.
“I’ve left something for you on the nightstand, but it’s not a big deal and when I come back, I don’t want you to mention it.”
Me as a friend
He’d just come into my life, into the camp, and made me fall in love with him, then fucked off even though I’d been literally begging him not to.
I just walked around until I got the sudden urge to flee in terror, which meant he was nearby.”
I JUST CACKLED SO HARD
his cold-air scent enveloping me.
That's not a thing
“You are such an ass, Aury.” Moth was staring at me from behind Aury’s back with a look of horror. Without saying a word, Lilac reached into the room, his face carefully expressionless, and grabbed Moth’s arm to tug him out.
“I know you’re not human, Aury. It doesn’t make me love you less.”
“You’re not violent by nature, Aury. It’s not like it’s your first instinct.” He gave me a sad smile. “I think it is, though. Deep down.
For me.” Aury’s brows pinched. “Gage, I would do anything for you,”
“I just… want what’s best for you,” he said, voice soft. “And I don’t think that’s me.” My resolve crumbled entirely. “You are,”
“He told me how sad you were.” His breath shuddered out of him, and he nuzzled my cheek. “I hated the thought of it. But… I came back mainly for the girls.”
:')
“You brought that thing back with you,” Cutter spat. My shoulders hunched up with tension. “He’s not a thing. He’s a person.” “It’s a fucking. Monster.”
“Look what monsters do, Ghost.” I stared at him. “Aury didn’t do that.” “They’re all the same! They’re all capable of it! They’re no better than animals. And you’re fucking one, you sick freak.”
“Calm down, Aury,” I said in the most soothing voice I could manage, which was still jerky with fear. “Please. For me. You don’t want to hurt Lilac. Or Anchor. Or anyone else. I’m fine. See?”
After gently pulling off my mask, he swooped down to kiss me. And it was a definite ‘I’m going to fuck you very, very soon’ Aury kiss, which I was wonderfully familiar with, and had missed so much it hurt.
I gritted my teeth at the sight of him stroking his own cock as he sucked me hungrily. Then big, dark eyes flicked up to look at me through long lashes, and he lifted that hand. I spread my legs wider in anticipation.
Before I could even react, his hands spread me wide and that long tongue was thrusting into my ass. “Oh my god.” I scrabbled at the wall for purchase. My cock jerked between my legs, so close to coming without even being touched, because his tongue felt unbelievable. He withdrew it to lick my hole, his forked tongue circling as he moaned.
Aury’s cock dripped as he stood up, so much that a long, thin thread was almost connecting his cockhead to the floor.
Obsessed with Aury's anatomy
“I do feel… It feels different here,” he admitted, voice soft. “Safer. Like I…” He trailed off, but I could tell what he’d been about to say. “Like you belong.” I leaned forward to kiss him. “Because you do.”
I remembered my cell door creaking open, a tall, hooded figure standing there for long moments, their blackened fingertips twitching when they saw me. One of the last telyths.
Humans could die so easily, but the rycke chose its death. Our bodies didn’t fail. The life seed didn’t die. When we were done with living, we simply allowed the earth to take us back, to use our body for new life. When Gage’s human life came to an end, I would follow him. I knew it deep in the core of me already—there was no question. He was my mate.
I liked the thought of giving my life, my memories, to the next rycke, because Gage would live on in them forever.
