The Reaper Saga [Book 1-3]

PARADISE

READ WITH CAUTION, THE NEXT TWO CHAPTERS IS NOT CONSIDARLBE FOR ANYONE UNDER 18, SO READ AT YOUR OWN RISK. (JUST WANTED TO WARN YOU YALL'S EVEN IF I KNOW NO ONE LISTENS TO THOSE THESE DAYS, LMAO)

EMELINE

If four years ago anyone would have said that I would be kissing my husband in a bed like there's no tomorrow? I would have gladly thrown a right hook in their way. But right now? The second time I pressed my lips against him, something in me snapped. Dragging him to the bed while securing the door bolt with my mind, I quickly grabbed his cheeks to kiss him again.

"Little soul, wait!" Instead of pushing him away, I pulled him even tighter.

"Oh hell, woman. What are you doing to me?" He groaned with an agonizing voice.

I almost smiled. 

In this entire world, only I had the power to make him breathless. 

"Emie, please tell me I'm not dreaming. Please tell me that you're really here." He grunted as if he was in pain. He truly thought he was dreaming, wasn't he? 

I cupped his face, seeing him vulnerable for the first time. I could still remember how just a few weeks ago, I asked him to be my friend and he left, leaving me to be the one to suffer night after night with memories of us.

I wanted to forget everything.

But it didn't give me peace, no, peace was the last thing my mind was holding onto. Without him, it was all chaos.

A chaos I didn't know how to run from.

"Do you regret it?" Even if we had that talk...I had a right to know. "Do you regret lying about the prophecy?"

"Every day of my life." I wanted to sigh in relief but his eyes flashed in anger, letting me know that he wasn't done yet. "What about you? You were the one who drove a dagger in your own heart. You didn't even let me explain. I begged you, I fucking begged...you didn't listen. You never listen."

"I chose Hell to save myself from your betrayal." The truth was rather morbid but I had to live with it for millennia in my mind. Now it was time he knew that too.

"I am so sorry, little soul, you have no idea of how sorry I am." 

"I'm here. Alexei. I'm here for you if you are ready for it." He couldn't have looked anymore shocked. Before he could say a word, I claimed his mouth for another brutal kiss, silencing him from overthinking. 

His hands mirrored mine only to stop at the nape of my neck. Touching the soft skin, he let out a bitter smile. "It's gone."

I paused, wondering what was gone. But the moment I remembered, I couldn't hide the pain of loss from him. "I-I couldn't stop them. I cried for months, you know? It was the last thing I had of Hannah."

The pendant made of the rune was gone yet by the grin on his face, I just knew what else had caught his attention.

"And yet this is still here, right where I put it on."

The Opal ring.

I looked down, happiness rushing through my veins. "Maybe it was always meant to be there."

It's funny how Demos saw it every day but he never questioned it or tried to take it away from me. I was thankful for the small miracles. 

"You know it's meant to be." With that promise, Lex's hands were all over me. Tingles filled my whole body, especially where he touched. My legs were wrapped around his hips and I was a stuttering mess when I felt just how much...er excited he was.