Kayden blinked. “So what are you saying?”
“I’m saying there’s something else that scares them, and it’s in the missing part of the text. Something worse than the end of life on Earth.”
“What’s worse than that?” Alec ridiculed.
My insides tingled with anticipation as Joshua stared at them pensively. “The end of them.”
Holy Heavens.
Chapter 15
Zavariel
The vampire and the werewolves went upstairs to Belle’s room. She remained in the bathroom, sitting on the edge of the bathtub, her fingers swinging in the water filling it absently.
The three competed to put a smile on her tormented face. They showered her with apologies and kisses and loving words. For now, they hid the truth of their discovery from her but assured her they would do anything to give her what she yearned for.
They were lies, but they believed them. What never ceased to astonish me was the sincerity of their claims. The deluge of real emotions behind every word they said to her every time. Their love for Belle was beyond logic, against nature, and by my book, wrong, yet I had never sensed any earthly affection for one creature that grand and unconditional.
The longer I stayed that close to them and felt what their hearts carried, the more it fascinated me. And when they undressed her to give her that bath, any man, human, supernatural or celestial, could see it was not hard to understand why they loved her that much.
Belle possessed, I dared say, remarkable outer beauty, even by celestial standards. Internally, which mattered the most, she was flawed and dark and vulnerable, and that…made her appeal more alluring.
That immortal confused me to the core.
As they started their fondling and decadent debauchery, I found myself, again, unexpectedly intrigued. Just like this morning, as opposed to what I should have done at sinful moments such as these, I had a powerful urge to watch them make indecent love to her body.
Why? That I had yet to discover, but I knew it had something to do with being in the proximity of this unique creation of Isabella Ferro.
She had power she did not want to understand. A force she fought with all her might because even she knew it was not something to accept or welcome. The power to corrupt.
Belle’s passion was as extreme as her pain, as her beauty. As her darkness. That combination was lethal.
As her lips parted and her face contorted with the painful pleasure of sexual gratification, as I swallowed while I watched with foreign desire and forbidden thoughts, I came to a realization.
Isabella Ferro might not be as terrible as I had thought, but she was dangerous.
More than I had been told.
Chapter 16
Belle
There were four kinds of baths women took.
A quick body wash with the company of one glass of wine or a beer.
A long one where you also washed your hair but only because it was a valid excuse to have more than one intake of alcohol.
Ayou’re in desperate need of a shaveand hair conditionerbath.
Alet’s evaluate every fucked up, shitty decision you’ve made in your entire life and wish you had brought more wine to get drunk enough to just pass out and drown, you stupid cowbath.
It wasn’t hard to guess which one I was having now. Except I didn’t bring any wine, and I was surrounded by three overprotective hulks that wouldn’t even allow me a moment off their sight.
My only source of intoxication was what they were doing to my body, and with Joshua giving me a Thai hand massage, Kayden on foot rub duty and Alec acting like a very naked, very firm cushion with a hard cock on my back while he shampooed my hair and washed my body, I’d be an ungrateful bitch if I complained.
Yet I couldn’t get my mind off things. It was running in circles, and the conclusion was always the same.
