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“Everyone needs a devil on their shoulder now and then. It’s good to be bad sometimes.”
“I’m wet from the rain. I’m sorry,” I protested weakly. “I don’t care. Please hold me.” For fuck’s sake. Hold her? I’d burn the world for her.
Hell, she was an angel born solely to torment me. And I was the demon who craved nothing more than to mark her with sin.
“I’m no Prince Charming.” He clamped his jaw as if trying not to say something, but he did anyway, his face dropping an inch closer to mine. “But if your Prince Charming ever did come, Clara, I’d have to fucking kill him.”
“What was the message?” “‘Power does not equal love.’ Then she vanished. I’d told my father the next day at the breakfast table that I’d had a dream of Grandma coming to my bedside. I hadn’t even known what necromancers were at the time. But that alerted him to what I was. So the day after I turned seven, we had a visitor.”
“What on earth did I do to deserve you?” He wasn’t asking me, but I answered anyway. “Everyone deserves another soul who matches them, to walk beside them through this world, to be their best friend and true lover.” His pulse throbbed faster against my palm where I had it pressed to the side of his neck. He heaved a shaky sigh. “Do you mean soulmates?” “Yes.” Hesitantly, cautiously, he then asked, “Are you my soulmate, Clara?” “Of course I am, silly.” I sat up, meeting an astonished dark-eyed gaze. “I’ve just been waiting for you to catch up and realize it.”
I had a hot boyfriend who loved books and cooking and butterflies. Someone kill me now. Life couldn’t get better than this.
“I thought you might be mad.” Her voice cracked, which broke my heart a little. “You might think I was trying to trap you or something.” “Please trap me.” Brushing my mouth against hers, I whispered low, “I’m already your slave, Clara. I’d do anything to be tied to you forever.
“The Tulane Book Festival. I go every year. Usually, I drag Violet or Isadora, but this year, I have the delight of dragging you.” “Woman, you could drag me to hell, and I’d go happily.”
