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“Isn’t it obvious,” I say cooly, cocking my head to one side, my smile growing even wider. “I’m sending you to hell.”
When his dark eyes land back on me, they soften and I can’t help but to press a chaste kiss against his lips.
In a way, I’ve left Penelope trapped inside too, kneeling on a pew, still praying for miracles where there is only tragedy. She’s a stranger to me now, one who belongs amongst the ashes of my past. The smell of gasoline hangs heavy in the air when the devil places a matchbox in my palm.
All I want to do for the rest of my life is worship at her altar. She is a goddess amongst us sinners.
Nothing else matters other than she’s here, safe, with me. “It needs to be cleaned, my darling,”
“He shaved it off in front of everyone,” she croaks, her eyes shining with unshed tears. “It was my first punishment.”
“Lenix, you’re my wife—mine. You belong here with me. Nowhere else,” I say vehemently.
“I need you, my darling,” I rasp.
I would set the entire world on fire just to keep her safe. Nothing really makes sense anymore without her here.
That same all-encompassing feeling that overwrote my entire body when we stood side by side watching the chapel burn. “I love you,” I blurt out.
Instead, there’s a sudden flash of relief and then he gives me the largest, toothiest smile I’ve ever seen on him, still wearing those silly red oven mitts paired with his thousand dollar suit. I melt.
“is real, Lenix. And it’s for life. I adore you. I love you so damn much that it feels like I’ve always loved you, but I’ve just been too much of an idiot to realize it until now. It doesn’t matter how it started, the only thing that matters is that there’s no end between us.”
“Between you and I, this means nothing. It’s simply a mark that now exists,”
whispering every possible thing I love about her while my palm grinds her clit, my fingers dripping from her wet desire.
“Let it go, Connor. For me? I need you. There’s no space for this guilt between us.”
“Maybe the only good I’m destined for in this life is you, Lenix,” he finally says.
