Then, Earth Swallowed Ocean

by Shiloh Sloane

He loved her like an open field. She was his first kiss. It was when he was all human, no animalism, nothing feral. They were both safe those days. It wasn’t until after he turned for the first time that his pa pulled him out to the barn and told him he could kill her.

“I’ve played nice with you. If you think even your Devil can cut through me, I’ll show you how wrong you are. Because he could open the earth underneath our feet and I would fuck you in our fall. I would devour him and free every damned soul just to see you in the sun again.”