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The doorbell rang, jolting me out of my thoughts. I was in the middle of mixing a new scent for my soap line when the sound interrupted my concentration. Sighing, I set down the pipette and made my way to the front door. As I swung the door open, I was met with the sight of Orpheus, his tall, imposing figure standing in the doorway. He held a beautiful box in his hands with a letter attached to it. His expression was unreadable, but there was a sense of sadness in his eyes that I couldn’t ignore.…
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I held her tightly as she cried into my chest. My shirt muffled her sobs, but I could feel each one reverberate through my body. I hated seeing her like this, so broken and vulnerable. It made me want to tear apart the world to fix it for her. “It’s okay, Ness,” I whispered, stroking her hair gently. “I’m here now. I’ll never leave you again.” She looked up at me with tear-stained eyes, her face red and swollen from crying. “You promise?” “I promise,” I replied, pressing a…
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As I stand here, with the blood of my rapist staining my hands, I felt a mixture of relief and dread wash over me. The weight of what I’d just done was heavy on my shoulders, but the release of his final breath brought a sense of closure I never thought I’d feel. I couldn’t help but think about how far I’d come since that night in the alleyway and how much I’d changed. Orpheus and Hadrian took me upstairs, and as they led me into the kitchen, I noticed a cup of hot tea sitting on the counter.…
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The crinkle of the black tissue paper was the only sound in the room as I folded the lip gloss and neutral eyeshadow palette, careful not to let my shaking hands tear the paper. I was about to put the customer’s address on the bubble wrap envelope when my phone buzzed, alerting me to a new text from Orpheus. He wanted to meet me at the back door, and I couldn’t help but wonder what he wanted. I walked through my house, my footsteps muffled by the plush carpet, and opened the back door, letting in a…
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I lay there next to Vanessa, her head resting on my chest and my hand stroking her hair. I listened to her breathing, slow and even, and I knew she was asleep. I couldn’t help but feel a sense of satisfaction as I thought about what had happened between us tonight. She was mine now in a way no one else could ever be. But as I lay there, I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing. It wasn’t that I wanted more from Vanessa. It was that I knew she wanted more. She had said Hadrian’s…
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I could feel Orpheus’s fingers sliding in and out of me as he drove us back to my house. The rush of speed and the thrill of what we had just done made me wetter than ever. I leaned back in the seat, my head rested against the window, and let him do whatever he wanted to me. As we sped through the night, I felt a warm trickle between my legs. At first, I thought it was just more of my arousal, but then I realized it was something else entirely when a harsh cramp overcame me. My period had come on full…
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“So you won’t take me with you out hunting?” Vanessa inquired, her face etched with disappointment. “I’m sorry, love,” I responded, attempting to mitigate her distress. “It’s not like I don’t want to; it’s just that it’s illegal the way I do it, and I don’t want to risk you getting caught up in it.” Vanessa’s face contorted into a pout, but she still nodded in understanding. “Okay.” She sighed. “Can you at least tell me about it? Like, what do you do?” “Well,…
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“It seems like you’re not overly preoccupied by my presence.” The mutt looked at me with unamused eyes, as if people often showed up in his owner’s house without her permission. Given that I was one out of two suitors, it made sense. The mutt rested his head on his paws but didn’t take his eyes off me, almost as if waiting for me to do something that would pique his interest. But jokes on him. I was the most boring immortal he would ever have the pleasure of meeting. Before Vanessa, I had…
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As soon as the front door slammed and a car roared to life, I desperately attempted to pull my hand out of the restraints, but my efforts were in vain. I followed the chain and groaned when I realized he attached it to the bar in my headboard, so the only way to get out of the cuffs was by breaking my thumb, breaking the headboard, sawing through the chain, or with the damn key. What a clever fucker! Throwing my head back as hard as I could in frustration, I had to blow a piece of hair that settled…
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FUCK! I should have paid more attention. How the fuck was she going to realize just how much I paid attention to the details if I couldn’t get the right brand of cereal? I knew she liked cornflakes with berries or banana slices in the morning. So, the question was: are they cornflakes or frosted flakes? Was she that health conscious and ate cornflakes because they were just a non-sugary version? The one social media post where she did post her breakfast was not as specific as I thought it would…
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