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And they never expected some sweet-faced, unassuming, quiet young woman would be the true epicenter of all the chaos and destruction. It could never be a woman. They always underestimate us. They always overlook us. Always.
So, I do what I always do. I sit on the lid.
“You have a very expressive face.”
“There's nowhere on Earth that I can't find you, vampire,”
You're in danger of convincing yourself you know what to do with a woman like me.
I feel a tear creep from my eye. Traitorous fucking thing.
He sounds like he will burn the world to keep his word.
Yassssss we love this!!
Also weird: feelings. I'm feeling a lot of... feelings.
I pass him the note and Ashen laughs. Properly laughs. It's maybe the greatest sound I've ever heard. It's so warm. It's so rare. I would steer my ship onto the rocks just to hear it again, to see his face vibrant with its afterglow.
I already feel like I'm unravelling here. One moment, one word, one look at a time.
With his hand on my back and his body close to mine, he feels like the only reassuring thing about this place.
Girlll don't get too comfortable now
Let me be a shadow in your reaping and we will call your debt fulfilled.
“Your mind is a terrifying place.”
It's the act of offering that overwhelms me.
But as is sometimes the way with frustration and anger and hurt that you bury deep, I feel the swell of enraged tears burning in my eyes. Christ, I fucking HATE IT when this happens.
“You are acerbic and dramatic but you are also brave. You fear yet challenge this place. You fear yet challenge me,”
“You are like the wind or the sea, like an elemental force of nature. You feared me and yet I'm the one who is left defenseless as you dismantle my walls, stone by stone.”
I watch as he loses his thoughts to memories I will never know.
Promises are for mortals. They are meant to die with the bearer.”
“This promise is just like you. There is no measure of time, no realm that can stop it. It is elemental.”
The more I let go of my guard, the more it feels right. The danger seems to dissolve, leaving only desire behind.
“No. You belong to you, vampire. But I will cherish any part you're willing to share with me.”
“I'll share every part that you're willing to take, and I'll take any part that you're willing to give,”
That I'm not just falling into love, I've landed in the very depths of it.
