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“You weren’t harmed,” he growls. “You have a scratch.”
“A scratch that’s probably infested with mutated bacteria from the claws of someone who uses them to murder people.”
“Aww! You two are cute! You know, I always wondered what kind of guy you could possibly end up in a relationship with, and a mutated moth monster man is not what I thought of, but it makes sense.”
Damn Tessie and her incredible unbothered-ness in this moment.
“I will clean the wound,” he says. “Because you are a baby.”
“Fuck you, buddy!”
He laughs. He was joking. He has kind of a twisted sense of humor. I wonder how many other jokes of his I missed.
“Come to my room,” he says. “I have antiseptic and bandaging.”
I want to see his room. He saw my private sanctum sanctorum, it is only fair that I should get to intrude upon his, though it doesn’t have quite the same vibe when you’re invited.
I leave Tessie dangling, apparently unconcerned by her predicament. I don’t know what exactly is going on there, but I do know we are going to have a lot to talk about when this is over.
“Uh.”
The next room, Justice’s room, is empty. It has a bedroll, the kind that soldiers use on training exercises, and a med kit. Literally nothing else. Fortunately for me, I need what’s in the med kit.
“You talked about how weird my place was, and this is yours?”
“This is a room I use to sleep,” he says. “The rest of the place accommodates any other needs I have. I don’t need anything else in here.”
“That’s my exact philosophy. I think you were projecting your weirdness onto me. Is that what you need? You need me to be weird like you?”
“Maybe I do,” he says gruffly.
Just like that, the mood shifts. There’s suddenly something intimate in the air, a release of pheromones, maybe. Or maybe it’s just the chemistry of the argument. Whatever it is, some kind of heat is charging between us. I don’t trust it.
He turns to me and holds me.
“Stay still,” he says. “I need to get all this scary mutant bacteria out of your little boo boo.”
“Oh my god, you fucking jerk,” I laugh.
He draws me close and hitches me up his body so we can be properly eye to eye. I used to find his red gaze strange. Now it’s just kind of hot.
“I missed you,” he breathes against my mouth.
“Since yesterday?”
“I could not think of anything other than you. Even Rage occupied less of my mind than he should. You are a distraction. And I do not wish to remain distracted.”
“You’re hoping to fuck me out of your system? That it?”
It’s not typical for men to be this blunt about their desire to use my body to moderate their own emotional state. Usually men at least pretend to want something deeper. They talk about things like love and marriage, they dog whistle about family and kids. They think that’s what I want to hear, and so they lie to me ineffectively.
“I want to wrap you around my cock until I fill you with my seed. Your pussy takes my cock like it was made for me. The way you gripped me, how you cried out and took me even though it stretched your cunt so tightly, it was glorious. I don’t think there is any way to fuck you out of my system. But I have to have you now.”
He knows how to talk his way into my pants, that’s for damn sure. I have never been with a creature with so much intense desire for me, at least not one with whom I share the same level of attention.
I can’t work out what he wants from me, if he wants anything at all. Right now all he needs is my body and he is going to take it. Two pairs of arms wrap around me and draw me down to that pathetic excuse for a bed. At least I have a mattress at my place, not a thin polystyrene mat on top of a canvas stretcher.
It doesn’t really matter though, not really. When I am in his arms it doesn’t matter where I am, or what is around us. He has a way of becoming the world. His bright red eyes fill my field of vision, and his agile, plentiful hands work at my clothing almost without me noticing. I don’t want to be clothed. I want to be naked. I want to become as he is, an animal, a creature of strangeness and instinct.
