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“I did... about Adrien. It seems that once my recurring dream ended, my mind opened up to normal human processes. Nightmares.”
His hands wrap around my forearms and they push me away from his body, holding me far enough away so that he can look into my eyes.
“You are mine, Suki. I am your fucking monster and your only nightmare. He has no goddamn place in your mind and no right to haunt your dreams. I will break him, Suki, break him apart bone by motherfucking bone. I will reach through his fucking throat, pull his heart out and gift it to you. This...” he points between us. “This is it for me. I need you to understand it. I will kill for you. I will burn this world to the ground if it means that you will be safe. I will decimate it if that's what will make you happy.”
My skin breaks into billions of microscopic electric shocks as I process every sentence that left those delicious lips. He would do this for me? He would bring hell on this forsaken world because it would please me?
“Niklas... I...”
“Always,” he interrupts.
Always.
“You will never let me go, will you?” I ask.
“Never... I let you go once, Suki. I’m not sure which gods I have to thank for dropping you into my fucking lap, but I’m’ happy to give them a human sacrifice for it.”
“What if I run?”
“I will scout the ends of the earth. I will break through mountains. I will drain the oceans if it means finding you. I might not be able to stop you from running, Suki, but that hunger that’s going to ravage your soul, will. I told you before—stop playing by the rules of a world you don't belong in—succumb to who you are. This is not about giving in, this is about embracing. Your soul belongs here with me, it always did and it will forever... how will you survive if you run and it stays here? What will your life become?”
I cannot help but feel like I am being emotionally blackmailed while his rational train of thought ravages through me.
“I am not sure what you want from me, Niklas. What are you asking for? Because I do not think I can give it to you.”
He shakes his head, but his gaze never leaves my eyes. “I don't want you to give me anything. There's darkness inside you, Suki. A beautiful, decadent, darkness that needs to break free, yet here you are, keeping it caged because the world you believe you belong to frowns upon it.” There is menace in his eyes, and his tongue is laced with subtle evil. It scares me, because what I have inside myself is not darkness, it's a sickness.
A sickness that broke my mother apart. A sickness that turned her into the depraved junkie worthless piece of shit that bled out under my blade. A sickness that tainted and burned my childhood to the ground.
I cannot give in. I cannot become my mother.
I look down, because I don't want him to see the fear and shame in my eyes. No matter how much my demons will torture me for this, I cannot give in and become her.
I see his hand reach for me and his fingers pinch my chin, bringing my head up. He doesn’t push me though. Instead, he kisses me with an unnatural softness for the brute he is… his beard and mustache tickle my skin and a soft moan escapes my lips. I feel his quirk upwards, and he shocks me when a chuckle escapes his throat.
What the hell?He almost never laughs. I slap his chest because these heavy moments need this, we need to bring some light into this atmosphere charged by unbelievable revelations.
“What?! You bastard!” I pretend to be annoyed as I move my lips away from his and look into his eyes.
He chuckles harder, and I slap at his hard chest again.
“Hey! Stop that before I flip you over my knee, woman!” There's amusement behind his menacing tone and it makes me smile.
I think about it for a second… last time he did that, he left me needy and wet. I definitely would not mind him finishing the job. Yet somehow it does not feel like the right time.
“Then tell me why you are chuckling like an old man under your mustache?!”
“Old man?! Oh, you silly little siren!” his tone is devious, and the smile on his face is dangerous as his big hands squeeze my ass cheeks to the point I hiss from the pain and grab onto his shoulders to steady myself. “I’m barely four years older than you.”
“Are you? Oh… could have fooled me.” I tease, and he slaps one of my ass cheeks so hard my whole body jerks forward on his lap. My hands go around his neck and my eyes fixate on his.
I can taste the intensity of this moment on my tongue. Like crimson spreading through my mouth… our lives intertwined in a dark way that we are just beginning to understand. The laughter feels like an acknowledgment… a full-stop for two separate stories.
I am not sure if it was truly the prologue. It could have been part one… or the last chapter before the end.
NIKLAS
Sliding my hands under her ass, I lift her off me, getting up from my heels so I can set her on her feet. I'm kneeling in front of her, my hands on her round hips, hers on my shoulders.
