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I could feel the energy surging in me, giving me a high unlike anything I had ever tasted. And honestly, the fact that she didn’t have that horrid grin wiped on her face was enough to relieve the worst kind of fear I was harboring, but as she continued to shut her eyes, I grew nervous.
“Talk to me,” I begged, lifting her chin to my height as I stood towering over her in a desperate plea for her to tell me she was okay. To tell me that I hadn’t just made a colossal mistake.
“Yes. Yes.” She was out of breath, pausing in between eachsyllable. “Fine. I’m fine.” Her hands had still clawed at the towel as if that mattered.
“Are you sure?” I beckoned her to look at me. Just one look to know she was okay. To know that I hadn’thurther.
I was stupid to do that. I was reckless. Tina was going to kill me. Maybe that was good. Maybe I deserved it.
“Yes, I just.” She tried to squint through her eyes but shut them instantly when she realized how close I still was. “I was afraid I might do or say something, and I just wanted to be sure that it wasn’t because of that strange hold your eyes have on me.”
“You’re tempting fate, that’s for sure.” I laughed, but inside, I wasn’t sure how to feel.
Even though every taste of her felt so good, it left me with a need for more—a want to keep pulling until I was fulfilled. So, even though I felt like I was riding this high, it beckoned another thought. How long did I have before I was starved again? Before the itch consumed me?
It was beginning to drive me nuts over the idea of her being my destruction or my solution, and honestly, I still didn’t know. There were too many factors at play right now. Too much going on. Between the deathwalkers, the ancients, Sasha and father’s death, and Mother’s kidnapping, it was feeling like nothing was going my way. So, considering the circumstances, I was doing well. And with her, I did feel a stillness—a calm to the storm that was my life. If I could live in this moment with her forever, I might never need to feel the itch again.
And I stared blankly at her while she stood there with her eyes closed. I looked at the faint dimples that formed ever so slightly on her cheeks when she blushed. Looking at the two freckles along her brow bone that sort of blended into hereyebrow.
Even though these weren’t traits deemed attractive, I felt unmistakably drawn to everything about her.
The button nose she scrunched, the pouty lips that bled slightly from her teeth tearing into them to silence herself as best she could.
Each feature seemed more intimate now. More special.
And I realized then that she wasn’t just some fascination anymore. She was someone that I could see a future with. Someone who looked past all my darkness and still saw the light.Somehow.
“You are going to be my undoing.” I smiled, letting my fingers tuck the few strands of hair in front of her face back behind her ears. Her curly locks really had a mind of their own.
She blinked. “Why do you keep saying that? Is it because I’m part angel?”
“How… how did you know?” My mouth opened a little in shock. That wasn’t exactly easy to come up with out of the blue, and she said it so sure of herself.
“I overheard you guys in the car. Something about being part angel, and that’s how I can resist you.” She seemed proud of herself in the last part.
“Ah. Well, I suppose it was time you knew anyway.” I wrapped another towel around her so she could stop being so distracting. I felt like I was still fighting back images of her naked. “I’ve been on the verge of turning into an Incubus. It’s what happens to succubus sometimes for reasons no one really knows. Mother and Father never really mentioned much about them because it’s certain death if the Elders find out. But it makes you, well, it turns you into a monster. Detachedfrom all human emotions and feelings. And my cravings were getting worse, my appetite vastly growing, and when I met you, I thought you might be able to fix me. Fixate my cravings.” It felt odd to say that out loud.
“You hardly seem detached from emotions.” She lifted a brow, acting as if my words were so outlandish. “If anything, this is the mosthumanyou’ve ever seemed to me. Maybe it is working? Maybe I’m helping!”
“I think you might be helping and making it worse. Speeding up my cravings and yet calming them at the same time. How am I ever supposed to be satisfied with anything less than you now?” I leaned down and kissed the sweet spot of her neck, watching her crinkle as if it tickled. “How is it that you’re okay with everything? I mean, I definitely don’t deserve someone as pure as you.” I had to ask.
“Well, I have dreamed about dark heroine guys like you for years. The kinds of guys that wield shadows and sexy fairies with wings.” She started, and I couldn’t help but look at her with concern. Sexy fairies with wings? Okay, so shewasdelusional.
“The kinds of guys from the novels that I read, asshole!” She chimed, smacking my arm lightly. “So, I think it’s easy for me to fall trapped in the idea that this ends well for me. But also, I don’t know. I mean, it sounds like every day I face a new way to die, and frankly, death by you doesn’t seem so bad. If I recall, those girls weremoaningbefore they hit the floor.” She laughed harder than I think I had ever heard her before. It could have been a nervous laugh, but it still comforted me.
“You might be crazy enough to survive me. I’ll go get you some new clothes.” I leaned down, kissed her forehead, and then closed the door, leaving her alone to herself and her thoughts.
Chapter 18
Freya
Dangling between my fingertips was the farthest thing from “clothing” I had ever seen.
It looked closer to lingerie with its lace bralette outline for a top and shorts that barely covered my two cheeks. Though, anything was better than three day old sweaty and now torn clothes, so I wasn’t exactly given many great options.
Not that Tina would have dressed me any better.
I carefully slid into the clothes to prevent them from ripping and exited the bathroom.
