“Your reading has very little to do with your fuckability.”
“Ah—wow.”
“It was a…joke.”
“I don’t think I’ve heard you tell one of those before.”
“That’s because I don’t.”
“Look, I’m not dumb. You’re not like most guys, and you like torturing a lot more than you like fucking. Eventually, you’ll—”
“I won’t kill you, Fiona. That’s the last thing on my mind. I could go ten years without murdering someone, and I’d never once think of murdering you.”
“Why, though? If you enjoy doing it so much, why would you hold back?”
“Because I like your company more than I enjoy spooning eyeballs from their sockets.”
“Is that another joke?”
“No. It’s the truth.”
“Well, I don’t know what to say to that.”
“I’m going to keep you safe, Fiona. I can never give you what Brett did, but I promise never to sell you, and I won’t hurt you.”
“Thanks.” I wipe my snotty nose with the back of my hand. “But there’s more.”
“Tell me what’s wrong.”
“I…like what you do too much. Madam Levy. Brett. It’s an addicting kind of evil. A sin I want to feel everywhere. I want to watch you work. I want to see you do terrible things. What does that make me? Am I even human? Or am I a monster, just like you?”
“You’re my monster, just as I am yours.”
I chuckle. “We’re so broken.”
“I have some good news for you?”
“Oh, yeah? And what’s that?”
“There is plenty of evil still left in the world, and I’d love to have you watch me work.”
And just like that, all my fears vanish.
He’s not going to kill me.
With him, I’ll transform.
He holds out his hand for me. “I’d like to take you home now, if that’s alright with you.”
“Home? Is that what we’re calling it?”
“It’s home. Our home.”
Chapter 14
HUNTER
Ishould be ashamed of myself.
