«Ready?» Verosika asks me with the enthusiasm of someone who can't wait to do something.
I swallow, slightly puzzled and with a bit of fear.
«Are you really sure you know how to do this?»
«Of course, love.» she immediately replies, taking her hands off my ear, with the needle and plastic tweezers in her hands «Among the things I occasionally did before becoming a popstar, I also worked as a piercer, I know how to make a simple hole in the lobe.»
She leans in close and kisses me on the ear. The same one she was holding just a few seconds ago.
«Well... one can't say you don't know how to calm me down.»
«I know.» she says cheerfully, taking my ear between her fingers again.
«Ouch!»
«I haven't done anything yet, love.»
«Then why does my ear hurt?»
«Because I'm holding it still with the tweezers?»
«Too tight! It hurts!»
«Sorry!» Verosika adjusts the pressure of the tweezers on my lobe.
I shouldn't have told her that I liked her earrings, because she immediately started hopping happily towards her trolley, pulling out a bunch of earrings she doesn't use anymore and telling me she would give me the ones I liked if I intended to get my earlobes pierced.
I chose some nice simple platinum hoops mined from the Circle of Wrath, but I hadn't realized she was offering not only to give me the earrings, but also to pierce me herself.
«Verosika... you do know we're in the middle of a pandemic and if I get a hemorrhage I'll probably die, right? In my own house, with my girlfriend whom I've been with for less than 24 hours!?» I do trust her, actually, but I can't contain the minimum worry I have given the situation.
«Don't worry, darling, the mortality rate of those who get piercings and earrings here in Hell is very low.»
«LOW!? So there is a risk!?»
Verosika leans in again to kiss me on the forehead «I won't let you die, don't worry. I'll lick your ear, succubi drool has healing properties.»
«And how effective are these properties?»
«Enough to keep you from dying if I accidentally stick the needle in your aorta.» she giggles, putting two fingers on her lips.
«Out of curiosity...» I swallow again «How many clients died? Of those who came to you?»
«One. He didn't really want a piercing, he wanted to remove the whole ear. You know, those who like doing body mods. An unusual request, and since I didn't have a scalpel on hand, I used the boss's chainsaw.» Verosika runs a hand through her hair, closing her eyes almost in embarrassment «I had never held one before and I couldn't really control it very well, let's say.»
The room falls into a tomb-like silence for at least 10 seconds. Until, realizing all her words, I burst out.
«Are you crazy!? You removed a client's ear with a chainsaw!?» I burst out with a cocktail of contrasting emotions in my voice, between amazement, surprise, and maybe deep down even a hint of amusement mixed with fear, since I'm about to be the next "client."
«Hey! He was in a hurry and the boss always told me to be fast to move on to the next client.» she puffs out her cheeks, almost offended.
Thinking about it, I find it hard to believe she could cause me serious damage without a chainsaw. At least I hope so.
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A web developer AND The succubus
Romance[Verosika X Male reader] A work-wrecked young man, driven to exhaustion to the point of death, and a succubus, who happened into his home by pure chance during a pandemic for angelic diseases brought by angels during the last extermination.
