Lor (Monstrous, #7)

by Lily Mayne

Someone wasn’t trying to poison me. They were poisoning Jugs.

Oh you have got to be shittin me!!! 🥺🤬

I didn’t answer, shaking as I tried not to collapse onto the floor. Someone had poisoned Jugs. And there was no known cure.

😭😭LILLYY!!

I swore that if he survived, I would let him live his life in peace in his own world, in case this was punishment for me giving my heart to an otherworlder. It would destroy me, but at least he would be alive. At least I would know that he was still out there, growing old and moving on, finding happiness with someone else. Alive.

I am sobbing. 😖😭🥺

“Who?” Seis demanded again. Jakir pursed her trembling lips, eyes growing fearful. But she whispered, “C-Councillor Raynir.”

If you’ll excuse me. *distant noise of gun cocking* Alright let’s go say Hi, shall we?

I stared back in silence, the mask he had taught me to wear firmly in place. But inside, I was seething with grief-fuelled fury. I wanted to murder him.

I condone the violence babe. 👏🏻

“I love you,” he said tearfully. “I want you to be happy after this.” “I won’t be happy without you,” I sobbed. “I won’t be able to bear it.”

Where are the tissues? 😭🥺😖I’m bawling. My heart. Lily how dare you!

“I haven’t really achieved much, but making the decision to come back here, to meet you properly, is the thing I’m most proud of in my life,” he told me quietly. “I love you, Lor. I don’t regret any of it. And that… that helps. It helps me accept what”—his breath shuddered out of him—“what’s going to happen. It was all worth it. I love you.”

I can’t breathe. 😭

The next morning, he didn’t wake up.

ARE. YOU. FUCKING. KIDDING. ME. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK. 😭😖🥺💔

One month.

😭wheezing is all I’m capable of right now.

I was going to make Jugs proud of me, even if he wasn’t here to see it.

Dammmmittt. 😭😭💔💔🥺🥺😖😖

One year and three months.

OHMHGOD! 🥺😭😖💔it keeps getting worse. My heart.

However, everyone knew that I had someone. Because a year after Jugs had gone into his deep sleep, I asked Lilimar to pierce my lip. To show the world that there was one person—a single person out there—who was mine, who I would never speak ill of, who would be the only one to ever feel the touch of my mouth.

I’m at 73% of the book. I am not going to survive. 💔

Five years.

……I’m not going to survive this book.

Eight years.

Fuck. 💔

Ten years.

I…can’t…

Another void. It was another void.

Idk if I’m relived or scared.

shiver ran down my spine. The rycke was an awful legend, a terrible nightmare from a forgotten age.

He’s not. Aury is precious baby. And we will protect him at all costs. 💚

Fifteen years.

…..fuck

This is your punishment. For taking a human from the otherworld for yourself. For letting your brother go through there. For everything.

This book has destroyed me.

Thirty years.

….I’ve not stopped crying. 😭

“I have the cure. It works.” I staggered toward her, feeling as though I might vomit everywhere. “I—I—Are you sure?” “I’m sure.” She gripped my hand when I reached her. “It is ready for Jugs.”

It better

Lilimar cleared her throat awkwardly. “Seis made me poison him several weeks ago. So that we could be sure.”

Ohmygod. 😭😭

“Jugs,” I choked out again, my hand shaking wildly as I placed it on his chest. “Hi.” His voice was rough and hoarse, but his pink mouth curved up into a tiny smile as he raised a trembling hand. “High-five.”

That’s it. My heart is now in fragmented pieces on the floor. 💔but thank fuck Jugs is awake.

“I would wait my whole life for you,” he said quietly, trying to steady his voice even as tears continued to stream freely down his cheeks. He pressed his lips to my hand again. “I would wait forever for you, Jugs.” My chin wobbled.

My chin is wayyyyy past a wobble. 😭

But Lor had. Lor hadn’t given up, and he had spent the last thirty years just waiting, hoping I would wake up. No one had ever cared about me that much.

He’d waited for me all this time. In that moment, nothing else mattered.

“If you’d never gotten better, I would still have spent the rest of my life by your side.” He kissed my fingertips. “There is no one else for me, Jugs.” “R-really?” My voice was small. No one had ever wanted me that much. Not even my own parents. “Even… even after all this time?” “I would have waited forever,” he told me.

My Jugs.

“There’s a human.” I pointed frantically, my fingertip thudding against the glass. “Look, it’s another human.”

Is it Danny!?!?

He was grinning up at the hooded creature, whose black-fingered hand rested against his nape in an intimate touch.

Danny!!

Lor’s mouth twisted. “Well, he’s with a telyth. No one would dare insult a telyth’s companion. They can be… quite vicious.”

Pfff. Wyn is secretly a teddy bear now. 😂😂

“But you’re perfect. And you’re mine. I could never want anyone else.”

Seis chuckled, looking entirely unbothered. “Telyths are cantankerous old fuckers.”

My life was here now. With him. I didn’t need anything else.

And how much he loved getting fucked hard.

I loved him—everything about him. He was my person. The one I was always meant to be with, even though we were from different worlds. Even though we’d been torn apart for so long. He’d waited for me.

“Jugs?” He rolled onto his back with another moan, and his voice was croaky with sleep when he mumbled, “My whole body hurts.”

🤭

“You are Jugs. My Jugs.”

“He’s what?” “He’s outside, with another otherworlder. He’s on his way—”

😭😍💙ekkkkk!!!! Yayyyy!!!!

Except it wasn’t Gryf.

No. No.

“This is Cat,” Lyri told me proudly, taking the human’s hand and pressing a smacking kiss to the back of it. “And before you ask, Gryf is fine.”

😍🩵

“Lyri?” I croaked, clutching Jugs’ hand tight. He huffed and crossed his arms. “Well, we’ve brought back some humans.

Ekkk!!! My babies!!!!!

And you know I had to get a little Wyn-and-Danny cameo in there, with Wyn being a total bastard as per usual.

I love for Danny&Wyn cameos. 🤍