Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)

by H.D. Carlton

“Why not? Uncle Z will keep them safe. I can be their personal bodyguard. They may not like it, but I’ll fucking do it.”

“Even with a chainsaw, it takes time to cut through a tree trunk. You’ll be dead before you get that far.”

“That’s for my grandma, dick.” “Bro, none of your grandparents are still alive.”

I’m going to burn the entire fucking world down until I find her, and I don’t care who gets burnt.

I stand before them with a nearly two-hundred-pound bed strapped to my back. I am… I am no longer a man—only a beast succumbing to primal instinct. I am annihilation.

Not with the rose now carved over my heart.

No one fucks with my girl, and that includes her friends and family.

Pussy. Quite literally now. I switch the blade off, curl my fingers in his bottom teeth and yank it down, and drop the now detached piece of skin down his throat.

I will gladly pour gasoline on everything in my path and set it aflame, if only it leads me back to my mouse.

We survived the Culling, and we get fucking McDonald’s as a reward? It’s too stupid to be real.

Stop littering. Yes, baby.

I’m coming home with my little mouse tonight. And then? We’re going to burn down the world together.

Fuck. I’m so in love with her.

“Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.” “Yours. Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll be expected to beg.”

“And by the way, nothing is awkward between us. If you need me to pluck a butthole hair, I’ll do it.” He shrugs, “Or you know, pop an ingrown hair on your vagina.”

“My entire world revolves around you. If you want mint chocolate chip, then that’s what I want, too,”

“Happiness is fleeting. All that matters is that they’re living their life the way they want to.”

“I want to get a tattoo.” He smiles. “Of my name?” I snort. “Keep dreaming, buddy.”

“It’s because I love you, Adeline Reilly. And I know you love me back. When I’m inside you, you won’t be thinking of anything else but how to get me deeper. The only fear you’ll taste is from a God sending you to heaven too soon.”

“You really want to cause mass extinction for those names? Moan them, little mouse, I dare you. Whichever ones you choose, not a single man by that name will fucking exist anymore. How about we start with Chad? We can definitely live without the Chads in the world.”

“Sibby!” I shout exasperatedly. “Stop taking your clothes off, we are not having a fucking orgy!”

“Placing the crown on my queen,”

Zade may be Hades, but the dark God has never been known to bow for anyone but his woman.

"I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine, too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate. Do you think that makes me weak? Or do you think I'm strong enough to admit that even though my body can physically live on without you, I would never get my fucking soul back?”

"Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible."

“What you’ve forgotten is that the heart beating inside your chest isn’t fucking yours,” he snarls. “It’s mine. And if my heart has stopped working, then pull that trigger, little mouse. Kill the rest of me. I’m nothing if I’m not the reason you breathe.”

You’re my everything, and you become so much more with each passing day. I possess every fucking part of you, Adeline.

He carved a symbol of his love for me into his chest.

“I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.”

She decided it would be fun to play fucking frisbee with body parts or some shit, so we spent an hour alone trying to locate every piece of Francesca

Didn’t help that Sibby decided to have an imaginary orgy directly after, forcing Addie and I to leave until she finished. Literally.

“I’ve followed you through lifetimes, Adeline. My soul needs you so badly that I’ve become a shadow, destined to hunt you for eternity.”

“You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”

“I love you, Zade. Sometimes I can’t fucking stand it,” I say, my voice raspy and uneven. “But it was the only thing that kept me alive. You saved me. Even when we were apart, you saved me. And I hope to God you never stop hunting me.”

“Sometimes, I wish I’d never met you. Because now that I have, now that I’m in love with you, I’ll never be able to carve you out. You said I’d bleed out before that’d ever happen, and you were right. And I hate you for that.”

I’m on edge enough to fight air, and I’ll fucking win, too.

It’d take nothing short of an incinerator to melt me, except when it comes to Addie. Then I’m fucking slush.

“If you’re my death, then I’m your fucking lifeline.”

“You’re the only thing I need to survive. I will follow you into the afterlife, little mouse. And then how will you escape me? There’s nowhere to run after you’ve been dragged to Hell.”

“I’m too addicted to you to ever let you go,”

“That’s it, Adeline. Now take my cum like a good little girl.”

“But I hope you know I’m always going to run from you. I like the way you chase me.”

“Need a wheelchair, baby?”

fucking love bowing to the dark little goddess.

“Because if you fall, I’ll follow after you.”

Fucking hell, he needs goddamn dick reduction surgery.

Doesn’t she know? Zade is a God. And the only one who will conquer this world is him.

I am Z, and I am watching.”

“When you’re scared and can hardly breathe, this is where I’ll be. Deep inside of you. Whether I’m with you physically, or in your heart, I’m always going to be there.”

“I will chase away your demons, Adeline, and they will run and hide because I’m fucking scarier.”