An Imp's Curse

"Look deep down into yourself," he breathed out as he closed the distance between us. "What do you feel?"

The smell of his skin tickled my nose, yet I couldn't breath it in; it was poised.

"Well?" He urged as he moved closer to my neck.

"Stop," I said with a shaking confidence, "it isn't always gonna be like this. You can't hide me away forever."

"That should make you feel good, shouldn't it? You've been trying to escape for how long now?" He asked teasingly while running a finger along my hair.

"Now is your chance."

My last chance, to leave, but is that what I really even wanted anymore?

Lilac was always a hard-headed girl, her fear would either make her strong or cause her to fall completely.

All her life she had found herself being used and abused, no one had truly loved her.

This made it easy for her to read her own future.

But, not even she could have seen her future trailing up to this moment, a moment between a human, and a broken monster.