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Love? That’s not something I’ve even thought about, but how else do you describe being so desperate for someone that you’re willing to take lives, just to hear the person’s voice again? I don’t think there’s any other reasonable explanation.

“I love you too, Nico.”

He tilts his head and asks, “Why are you blushing? Are you embarrassed to admit that you love me?”

I shrug my shoulders.

“I don’t know. It’s weird. Those aren’t words I’ve said to anyone before. I wasn’t a virgin before, but you’re my first in this way, and I never thought I loved you, but it makes sense. My life hasn’t been easy. I've been through many points of heartbreak, but when I saw, on the news, you were dead…”

I close my eyes and shake my head. When I reopen them, he’s still staring at me.

“I’ve never felt devastation so great. The emotional pain so excruciating, it radiated through my entire body. I didn’t honestly know why I felt like that,but now it makes sense. I love you. Even though I’ve never known what love was.”

Wrapping his arms around my waist, he flips me over to my back. Hovering over me, he stares at me with a heated expression.

“What are you doing?”

He pulls himself out of his pants, reaches under his t-shirt I’m wearing, and pushes my panties to the side.

“I need to be inside you, living dead girl.”

“Are you ever not hard?” I ask, as he slides inside me.

He smirks at me before shaking his head.

“With you around? No, baby. If I could stay inside this pussy twenty-four hours a day, I would. Now be a good girl and tell me those words again.”

Hovering over me, with one hand on the mattress, he cradles the side of my face with the other, while I give him what he wants.

“I love you, Nico.”

His hand trembles slightly, as he moves in and out of my pussy, and the features on his face, for once, show emotion.

“I’ll still hurt you, because I need it. Your tears are beautiful, so I’ll still make you cry, but I’ll protect you with my fucking life.”

Leaning his head forward, he places his lips on mine, and kisses me like I’m everything he has ever needed. No one has ever made me feel more complete, but there’s a danger in feeling so content. Like a house of cards, it could tumble easily.

“Tell me this never ends, Nico. Swear to me, I’m not going to lose you.”

CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE

REAPER

Wrapping my hand around her throat, I growl as I come inside her.

“Never.”

She responds with an orgasm of her own, and trembles under me, her heart pounding into my chest, as she arches her back and shoves her tits against me. This is how I want us. Connected, as physically close as two people can be, her skin pressing against mine, as she calls my name. There is nothing as beautiful as this, but her questioning if this will last bothers me.

Pulling out of her, the frustration grows until my neck tingles.

“I want you downstairs in ten minutes. We need to talk. And if I stay in this room with you, I’m going to fuck you over and over again.”

She pulls the t-shirt down over her legs, and stares at me with concern.

“Did I do something wrong? You look angry.”

I run a hand through my hair and shake my head.

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