His hand curls around the side of my head, pulling me to him as he presses a kiss against my temple, whispering his devotion against my skin. “I really do fucking love you, and your strength. I hope you now know that. No one will get close enough to even smell your perfume, I’ll make fucking sure of that. But I need you to listen toeveryword I give you.”
We break apart as his arms go back to fanning the sofa, looking every part of the terrifying hell-born creature he is.Those hushed words to me are a stark contrast to the storm brewing beneath him.
I look him dead in the eyes when I speak, no longer keeping my voice low. “I will. They might never get their day in an official court, but they’re due one in mine. I don’t fucking play nice either. I’m not the same girl they took advantage of.” I wet my lips as his eyes darken on me. “I’ll be patient and wait until we get back.”
Saint’s heinous laugh rumbles around me, wrapping me in his cloak of darkness.
“That’s my fucking girl.”
42
Saint
San Quentin - Nickelback
Icrossedafuckingline when it came to Indie.
Fuck, I crashed over it, then went back and incinerated any evidence it ever existed.
I shouldn’t have ever entertained the idea of her, but she was always fucking there.
In the neighbourhood, at school, when I hung out with Rex. She was impossible to ignore, and I fought for years to shake the obsession with her.
By the end of my last semester at uni, when she rubbed her fucking ass against my dick at the pool table, the restraint snapped.
I tried to tether the strings of thread back together with a crooked needle.
In the end, I lost.
It’s the only game I’ve ever happily been the loser in. Because she’s fucking worth it all.
And looking at her now, seeing I have my very own archangel?
I’m glad I let my urges win.
Even with my darkened future ahead of me, I didn’t want to bring her into my world. There was a time I never thought I’d see her again, wanting to distance myself from the violence and heinous acts I’d seen and been a part of since my adolescence.
I still don’t regret it, because it’s led me to this moment.
All of them combined kept me in the realms of my normality, but Indie?
She kept my humanity intact.
Kept my heart beating.
She gave love to a monster that shouldn’t have allowed it in the first place. Though having her back after all this time, mirroring my own darkness?
I’llneverlet her go again.
She tells me to fuck off?
I’ll chase her.
She ignores me?
I’ll fill the room with her screaming my name.
When you’ve been starved of the one thing you crave the most in this world, you’ll allow nothing to come between you getting it ever again.
