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Levana avoided the sofa, heading straight for the dining table and taking a seat, putting a physical barrier between us. I followed slowly, the chair scraping on the stone floor as I dragged it out and sat down, never taking my eyes off her.
I committed each of her features to memory—her dark blue eyes, her delicate horns, and her almost permanently guarded expression. Perhaps Levana would make appearances at court now and then on behalf of her father or sister, but I had no intention of seeing her at those. For my own sanity, this had to be the end. Watching her from afar, knowing she could never be mine…
No, I wasn’t going to do that to myself.
In truth, I loved Levana. I’d loved her for months.
But I had to love myself too, at least a little.
“So, this is goodbye,” I said, breaking the uncomfortably drawn out silence.
“My family needs me.” The response was too fast, too practiced. But Levana wasn’t mine, and the tangle of lies she was telling herself wasn’t mine to unravel.
“And the queen doesn’t?”
Levana bristled—I’d obviously stumbled onto a sore spot. “The Ophelia who rules the shadow realm alongside her husband is very different from the Ophelia who arrived here from the human realm. She doesn’tneedme anymore.”
I do.
“Perhaps you’re right,” I agreed. “After all, she has friends now. There are other ex-Hunters here.”
Levana looked at me sharply like I knew she would. It was petty of me to even mention them, but the vicious voice in my head that was telling me to make her feel just a fraction of the pain I was feeling was persistent.
I don’t want to hurt her.
I love her.
I want her to know that she’s hurting me.
Fuck, it was going to take me years to figure out these emotions. Actually, never mind. I wasn’t sure I wanted to know.
“Right.” Levana swallowed thickly. “Ophelia has plenty of company among the other ex-Hunters. I guess you could too.”
I guess I could.
Maybe I will.
I’m not interested in any of them.
I only want you.
All valid responses—some more spiteful than others. None of them were what came out of my mouth, though.
“Are you really going to leave without letting me eat that sweet cunt one last time?”
Levana made a choked sound. “What did you just say? By the night, no one in mylifehas spoken to me like you do.”
“You like that about me.”
I stood up, pushing my chair back noisily, and strode around the table, dropping to my knees at her side. For as long as I’d known Levana, I hadn’t known shame—not when it came to her. If I had to crawl, beg, and plead for a scrap of her attention, for a smalltasteof what lay between her thighs, I’d done it without second thought.
Those days were over.
From tomorrow.
For now, Ineededthis. We both did.
“Give me a taste, Blue,” I growled, my cock already aching beneath my shadows. “If you’re going to walk out of here, walk away from this, then it’s going to be with my spit in your cunt. Better yet, my cum. One last time.”
