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VHEX

“Wait. You’re being serious?” Air whistles through Iris’s teeth. “No.”

Sucks for me.

Sucks for you too, wifey-boo.

Forced to keep breathing, I relax into the deep fucking relief of my Guide’s ice cream touch.

I carry her downstairs.

Bat-wings can only cockblock us for so long. I want her in my lair when those fucking shadows disappear.

I need her in my bed.

I need to be inside her, everywhere, so deep , until she takes away this pain forever.

“Vhex. Look at me.”

Something in her voice makes me dip my head. I fucking hate being told what to do.

But when it’s her?

Just fuck me up real good.

“Why do you keep asking me to kill you?”

“Someone needs to.”

“Even if that’s true, why me?”

“Because I bit you.” My fang throbs, desperate to go another round.

I’ve tried to pull that shit with pliers.

Or string and a doorknob.

String and a steam engine.

Even smashed my face with a rock.

My fang is indestructible.

So am I.

A devil that shouldn’t exist.

“Remy bit me. Does that mean I should kill hi?—”

“ Yes ,” I growl. “Let me kill him for you.”

“Right.” My Guide makes the cutest annoyed sound. “But what if instead of killing my two best fighters, you let me do my job and heal you?”

Her voice is as soft as the magic working my soul.

I feel her inside me, putting out fires and making shit make sense.

All the while, my venom dances in her veins.

She’s making the pain better.

She’s making me better.

Fuck.

I wouldn’t have bitten Iris if I’d known she was her .

If I’d been thinking.

If I’d been anything but a godsdamned monster.

Fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck—

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Fuck this fang.

Fuck my family.

Fuck this fucking bloodline for ruining everything that’s good. “It’s too late.”