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“No I’ll never be ready, but I’m here”
Our eyes hold each other’s ait around ainst his chest, and I’m surprised at how norid He’s none of those things He feels like a man
Lowering his face tothem to my love Where Koa’s skin is smooth, brown toffee, Hayden’s is pale cream Instead of Koa’s full lips and square jaw, Hayden’s lips are thin, his features sharp and defined Only one thing is the sath I won’t get away from him easily
“Close your eyes,” he says in his elegant, clippedme to blink “Close them”
For awith blue fire The slightest sive in He see there on the front steps of his house
“Now open them,” he whispers
When I do, ed I’e stone castle with hideous spires rising like spikes in the darkness The air is cold like standing inside a cooler, and the sky is a pale bluish hue Everything is slightly darey, purple, and black Far off in the distance, I hear a roar like wind blowing or a cyclone spinning, and a shrill noise like a scream seems to disappear in the air
My heart beats faster Hayden’s arainst his chest, and his eyes burn intoacrossto see the depths of my soul I wait, unsure ill happen next Just when I think he’ll never release me, he does
His arm disappears from around ht flickers above, and I glance up at the enormity of the structure before me
Hayden steps to the side, and with a wave of his arm he speaks “Welcome home, my love I hope you’re very happy here”
Koa
I’m on my feet in panther form before my eyes have fully opened The sensation hits me so hard, it wakes me from my dream of Mercy’s arms, her beautiful body A quick look around the apartone I knohat she’s done I heard her heart cry out the moment it happened
My door is cracked and I’ down the stairs and into the woods as fast asmy muscles to make the miles disappear
Crossing the soft green lawn, I run straight to the house but stop when I see the front door standing open The driveway is paved in co noise as I round the circular fountain to where I can sense he stood His evil lingers, but it’s faint, dying away on the wind