“Not yet, my soul but in just a moment, yes. You will die,” he says.
I see a dark pool ahead. I’ve seen these pools all over the cave but this one… this one is different. It’s not filled with the clear liquid as all the others are filled with but with a darker liquid. A red liquid.
Augustine steps inside the little pool and walks towards the middle, standing waist deep in the thick, hot substance. He lowers my body into it and then releases my legs, allowing them to dangle in the liquid. He holds me close and then lifts my chin. I stare into his blood red eyes as he gazes deeply into mine and for a moment, all is calm. All is right.
He doesn’t say it, but I know what is to come next. He’s going to kiss me. He’s finally going to kiss me, and I am going to die. I am going to die and be reborn.
His eyes search mine as mine remain locked on his. He’s searching me, looking for any ounce of hesitance, but he doesn’t need to search. There is none. I am in this. I am so far into this, that there is no going back. There is no way to return. My old human life is gone. Forgotten. Erased.
He is my life now. He is my world and I’ll be damned if I had to live without my world, because to live a life without my soul, would be a life I would not live.
“I’ll be here when you wake, my soul,” he calmly tells me. My heart is pounding, thumping against the inside of my chest.
“I know you will. I’ll see you on the other side,” I tell him within.
“I’ll see you on the other side,” he repeats. His eyes close, his head tilts, he leans in and then those warm, lips of his, press against mine.
My eyes widen.
“Huhhhh!” I gasp. All air leaves me, once his lips meet mine. I yank away. My body arches and falls back over his arm.
Death. It starts from my lips and spreads in a wide web of flesh-eating darkness.
Augustine holds me out in front of him. One arm rests under my knees, while his other arm wraps around my back from underneath me.
I can’t see him. I can’t open my eyes. I’m dying. I’m decaying. Rotting away on the inside, while this plague consumes me whole.
I’m being lowered into the hot liquid. I’m submerged. I can’t breathe, but that’s okay. I know death is near. The darkness will consume me before I am to drown.
“Let go,” whispers the voice of my mate, from within. “Accept the darkness. Embrace it,” he tells me. It’s my mantra. The famous words that got me into this beautiful mess, since the beginning.
He’s right. He’s always been right. It’s time I let go. It’s time to accept the inevitable. It’s time I embrace my death.
“I love you,” I whisper within.
“And I love you, my sweet, sweet soul. Now let go. Surrender,” are the last words I hear from my beautiful devil.
“Yesss. I… surrender… I—”
Augustine’s POV
I wait until I can no longer hear her internal voice. I wait before pulling her out of the bath of blood.
I wait.
Growing impatient and worried.
A thought occurs me, what if I had performed something wrong. What if I had missed something? What if I killed her and she does not wake?
My paranoia is clouding my mind and sickening my thoughts.
No. I did everything right. I did everything right. Now all I must do is wait.
A sudden wave of blood splashes up, drenching my upper half and face.
My mate rises out of the heated liquid and takes her first immortal breath,
“Huhhhhh!” she inhales.
She is covered in blood. Her once pale skin is stained with the dark, red liquid.
Her eyes open wide and gone is the brown they once were and in its place is the color of night. Her eyes are the color of our soul.
I place my palm against her cheek and gaze wondrously into her eyes. I’m searching her. Scanning her of anything abnormal but all I feel is, us. All I feel is love.
Her dark eyes find mine and a wide smile begins to form on her lips. I watch her tongue slip out of her mouth and trace her lips, just as her eyes shut and she moans. They open and she grins.
“Deliciousss. Mmmh. I want morrre,” she purrs, and if my grin were to grow any bigger, my face would split.
“And so, your immortality, begins, my dark queen.”
“So, it begins,” she happily states.
THE END…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Tristin Clark is an American Dark Erotic Paranormal Romance Author, who writes steamy stories of soulmates and the beautifully broken and tragic tales of their lives.
Her current work consists of The Immortal Chronicles: a series, that follows the paranormal lives and romances of many different lovers, all fighting to find and claim their mates, before the end of time. THE MONSTER INSIDE ME, The Immortal Chronicles: Book One, A Dark Erotic Paranormal Novel is available to own.
Other works include: OUR COMPANY and OUR COMPANY & The Secrets Within. This series that follows the dark lives and romance of two broken individuals, that come together and fight to survive the ghosts and secrets of their past, in order to be together forever. OUR COMPANY is available to own.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
To my BFFL, Michelle and Amber.
Thanks for always being there for me.
You two rock my world.
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