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Once a loved one was gone, however, assuming you were essentially fond of them, she had found that the disappointments faded and only the love remained. If only through force of will.
As John accepted the simple gift, he tried to ignore how hard it was to be different from those around him. No voice. Not a Brother. Here by a stroke of luck that could just as easily have not connected him with Tohr.
poor old john. im glad we’re getting back into /john/ not john as he is in his relationship with xhex.
There were questions she needed to ask. Fears she wanted allayed. Choices to discuss. And not just with anyone. With Gerry. She needed to talk to him about this. Ask him what he knew and what he had done. Demand to know whether he was the good man she had believed him to be or someone else entirely. But he was gone, and there was nowhere to go with any of it. She was alone with a baseless yearning, once again. After so many years of being in this isolated spot, you’d think she’d be used to it. Some destinations were ever new territory, however, no matter how well you knew their town squares.
God, that male had been born under a dark star. He seemed destined for suffering.
“You got him?” Murhder asked softly. Her honey-colored eyes shifted up to his. “Yes. I do.” Well, brace yourself, he thought. Because I’m very sure you got me, too.
“Wipe me clean,” she heard herself say against his mouth. “Take everything away for me until I know only you. Make everything disappear . . . but you.”
Having her skin covered by anything but his mouth and hands, his very body, was a crime as far as he was concerned.
“My Sarah . . .” he groaned as he circled her thigh with his hand. “Give me what I want.”
He was in her skin, in her vein, and oh, God, he started sucking, his satin lips pulling at the puncture wounds, his red-and-black hair fanning over her hips, his fingers still going in and out of her—
As an exhile from what he considered his home in the Black Dagger Brotherhood, he had always felt badly for the objects left behind.
After John had peeled the apple in one long strip that fell on his bare foot, he cut a piece of the white flesh with the black steel of the dagger—and offered it to Z on the blade. Zsadist reached out and accepted the slice, popping it into his mouth. His smile was ancient. And beautiful, even, if not especially, because of his scarred face.