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D) She stopped his rampage with a kiss.
E) He woke up this morning wanting to give her the D! And the B!
These were all signs.
“Then I will say it, MF. I would like to have sex and offer you my blood.”
She wanted to cry. Pure tears of joy. “Can I eat first?”
He tilted his head. “Eat?”
“Yeah. I never got the chance to say goodbye to all my favorite foods the first time around. I’d like to do this right. In fact, you can help me.”
“Help?”
“I have a lot of favorite foods.”
“How many?” he asked.
“That’s right. You’ve never been to a grocery store. Get ready for one of my favorite pastimes, besides sex: snacking.”
He laughed. “I am thoroughly intrigued by your depraved whims, Mountain Flower. Show me this dark store of repulsivegrosseries. If it’s as terrifying as the moving vomit-sleigh you showed me last evening, I am in for quite the ride.”
“Where the hell is MF when I need her?” Damien paced his bedroom while Sky bawled her eyes out inconsolably, facedown on his bed. She’d been like this for hours. He’d attempted to hold her, talk calmly, ply her with powerful apple-tinis, and he’d even gone out and bought two dozen doughnuts. Which he’d ended up stress eating. Nothing soothed the woman, who refused to say a word.
“Sky, please talk to me. Tell me what I must do to stop you from crying.”
She lifted her head, flashing a set of insanely puffy eyes, before burying her face in his wet pillow again.
Dear gods.These weren’t the fake sobs meant to extract sympathy either. She was having a genuine meltdown. Every muscle in her body shook with despair, trying to dispel the overflow of sadness.
He began getting teary eyed, too. It was unnatural to watch a living creature suffer so deeply and not feel anything.
“Sky, I need you to stop this,” he said tenderly. “If you could simply listen, then perhaps I could—”
“Go away! Just die! I hate you!”
Ah. Finally. She said words. This is good.“Yes. You hate me. Say more. Tell me what you are feeling.” He waved his hand in a circle.
She sat up, a human ball of snot and tears. “You did this to me. You fucking…you fucking,” she hiccupped, “you showed up in my life. Uninvited.”
Not invited by her. It had been Cimil’s doing. “As I explained before, Cimil blackmailed me into working for her. She demanded I find you. But I swear, if I had to do it all over again, I would.”
Sky snarled at him. “Gah! You are so evil!”
“Sorry. Sorry. I did not mean I wouldn’t change things—such as running you over. I merely meant I wouldn’t change meeting you, Sky.”
She pointed at him. “You’re the devil! You and your slick tongue! You made me fall in love with you, all so you could sentence me to death again. Only now I know what’s waiting for me on the other side. It’s not the end. It’s just the beginning of an eternity of humiliation, of knowing you chose someone else when I chose you!” She began bawling again. “You don’t deserve me!”
She turned over, screaming into the pillow, “Go away, Damien! Leave me alone.”
All right.That was enough. He’d been sitting here for hours trying to soothe her. All he wanted to do was discuss the facts. With honesty. The only way he knew how to be with Sky. He hoped she might help him find a way out of this mess because, honestly, Sky was the smartest person he’d ever known.
“Enough!” he roared and grabbed her from the bed.
“Stop it. What are you doing?” She kicked and screamed.
He held her tightly by the waist from behind, dragging her to his bathroom.
