Page 24 of Their Darkest Desire

I hate this house, I really, really, really hate it here. If I survive this, I’m never doing this shit again. Creaking sounds are coming from my left and I look to see the basement door moving open.Oh, fuck no.I back away, but then I hear Felix’s voice down there, yelling. Fuck, I can’t just leave him there. Damn him for being so dumb to go there. Everyone knows you don’t go down into the creepy fucking basement.

I sigh and walk to the door. This might be the dumbest thing I have ever done, and yet here I am, going down there because this man is an idiot. The moment my bare feet touch the cold stone of the stairs, the door slams shut and I yelp out a scream.

“Evy?” I run down to the sound of Felix yelling for me, to find him standing there next to the corpse of an older woman. She has light grey, nearly white hair, dirtied with mud and old blood. She has the same face shape as Brittany but older. Her skin is ashen grey and fragile. It looks like she’s been dead for a couple of weeks now. The stench is unbearable. How did I not smell it before?

“Oh my god, Felix! You killed her!” He takes a step forward towards me and I take one back.

“Evy, I didn't do this. You’ve got to believe me!”

My tears are falling down my face. I hold my hand over my mouth so I don’t throw up from the smell. “Stay back!” His hair is dishevelled and there’s blood dripping down his right eyebrow to his cheek, falling onto the floor. “How do I know it wasn’t you?” I take one more step back towards the stairs. He tries to move, but I lift my hand and he stops.

“You were the one who told us your aunt went away, you didn’t want us to go into the basement, and you hid Brittany’s death from me. To me, it’s pretty fucking clear you did it.” Felix’s expression looks pained but that could just be a trick. That's how they do it, right? Trick you into believing they are the innocent ones.

"Evy, please!" He tries to walk to me again and I turn to run to the stairs. “Evy, watch out!”

I walk into someone. A sharp pain hits my abdomen and I look down to see a knife embedded in my stomach. A loud scream comes from somewhere in the background or maybe I’m just imagining it. I slowly look up to see Brittany staring at me, her eyes pitch black and an evil smile on her face. One that scares me. I take a few steps back with the knife inside me. Brittany’s distorted laughter is all I hear until my knees give up, and someone catches me and places me on the cold stone floor.

“You're okay. You're okay. I’m here.” Tears are leaving Felix’s eyes, a panicked and pained look on his face as he wails my name over and over again.

I look up at Brittany and all she does is smile at us. “Why?”

Brittany’s skin turns grey with black veins and she grows bigger. “Hmm, you mortals and your reasons.”

Felix steps in front of me as a last attempt to shield me from it. “What do you want?”

The monster that took my friend's skin looks at us in amusement, its abnormally long pointy tongue licking its lips. “Iwant it all. First, I took your little sister during that funeral. Her screams were delicious, so much fear. Then I took your weak, old aunt. Too easy to my liking, but you know, old people.” It’s moving its head to the side, looking down at me on the floor. “Now, I will take her, and once I’m finished, I’ll take your skin. A body like that will get me enough… willing souls,” it laughs.

It’s standing in front of Felix in a flash, slamming him into the wall.

I look around, hoping there’s something I can do. Something shining underneath the corpse of his aunt takes my attention and I drag myself towards it, trying not to move the knife still stuck in me as much as I can. I know the moment the knife goes out the bleeding will start and then I’ll bleed out in mere minutes.

I check on Felix and the demon and see they’re still occupied with each other, no one noticing me. Good. I push the corpse aside and find an old knife with symbols on it in her hand. There’s some black goo sticking to the point. What if it’s demon blood? Maybe this will kill it. I don’t have many options anyway; either I try and win and then die from the stab wound, or I try, it doesn’t do anything, and it eats my soul after I die of the stab wound. Let’s hope for the first scenario.

I turn to look at it again, its eyes now latched onto me. It looks at the knife in my hand and starts to go for me, but then gets pulled back, falling down.

Felix runs for me and I throw the knife at him. “STAB HIM! NOW!”

But the demon is faster. Suddenly, it’s right behind him and grabs his shoulder, nails digging in, drawing out blood. Felix grunts in pain as it throws him on the floor, his head hitting the stone in a loud crack.Oh fuck! We're so fucked.

It’s laughing again and grabs my face, pressing it against the wall with a force that makes me feel like my head might crackopen. “You think you can stop me, mortal. I’ll enjoy playing with you, little toy. The moment I saw you, I knew you were perfect, so much pain… So much anger.” Its tongue licks my neck while its hand presses the knife deeper in.

I scream in pain. This is it; I'm going to die now. I feel the demon going away from me and open my eyes to see it turning around, shock on its face. Felix is standing over him, his hair wet with blood.

“She’s mine! Not yours! MINE!" He pulls the dagger out of its back and stabs it over and over again until the creature screams out in pain and smoke starts to come out of its body – Brittany’s body. Her body slumps down and black liquid leaks out of her nose, mouth, and ears.

I can feel my consciousness slipping away and everything is so hazy. I try to open my mouth to say something, anything, but my lips feel glued shut.

Felix comes over to me and picks me up, then runs up the stairs, holding me.

The world is spinning around me and the last thing I see is grass and the feeling of the sun shining down on me.

Epilogue

2 Years later

Imoan softly, opening my eyes to see Felix between my legs. His tongue moves over my core, sucking on my clit, while his fingers plunge into me.

How I wish I could always wake up like this, and I’m not saying that because I’m in the last stage of my pregnancy which makes me constantly horny like a bitch in heat.

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