A Deal With the Devil

Chapter 32

Kassandra's POV

She lifts her head from my neck and meets my eyes. I moved my hand towards where she left the mark.

It feels rigid and deep. It stings at my touch and honestly hurts quite a bit but I can only feel excitement.

I'm hers.

My eyes flicker towards the mark I left this morning and my emotions intensify because she's mine.

God she's mine.

I meet her eyes again and they hold so many emotions and I can't read all of them from her stare.

But the one that I can decipher is love.

There is so much love in her eyes and I feel tears collect in mine.

I can't believe that she loves me

I see Ravanna's eyes widen in fear, I can feel how much she's scared of hurting me.

I know that she assumes I'm crying because of the pain from her bite.

But really, I'm crying out of happiness.

I shake my head at her and let out an almost sobbing laughter.

I move my hands to hold her and say, "I'm yours."

Her face shows with understanding and her lips widen into a bright smile. They frame her almost blindingly white teeth, neat and perfect.

She leans her head against mine and whispers, "And I, yours."

I move slightly to lay a single gentle kiss on her lips, one she returns.

I pull away to look around and panic, fuck.

I grab my loves hand and hurriedly move towards the classroom we were supposed to be in however long ago. I feel her jerk out of surprise but she follows.

"We're so late for class."

I hear her chuckle, "What is it with you and attending class? School is honestly useless, out in the world is where one should learn. This school bases the intelligence of students on the grades that they receive, not their actual knowledge on the subject."

She has a point. But I just....

"School or academics are the only thing I'm good at.... My mom would always help me with homework, reading, writing or whatever I brought to work on." I pause for a moment, thinking of how invested she was.

"It was like she was trying to learn too. Every math problem was always an adventure with her. I'd show her a problem along with an example and she'd get so frustrated trying to understand it. My dad..... my dad thought it was hilarious."

I remember those days after school. If my mom and I weren't working on our car, we were working on my homework. Life was so much simpler back then.

"After she left, everything changed. Doing well in school is almost my way of staying close to her. It was the only place that I could escape to when things weren't going so well at home."

Ravanna is silent for a while and in that time we arrive at the door of our class and just as I was about to lead us in, she lightly tugs on my hand to let me know that she wants me to face her.

I turn and meet her gaze questioningly. She pulls me close to her and lays her hand gently on my cheek.

"You will never have to return to that dreaded place. You will never have to hide yourself in fear of being beaten. He will never lay another hand on you, you will never feel the tortures that he put you through."