“
You don’t want me,” I surmise breathlessly. “So, what do you want?”
He shakes his head in disagreement, and when his lips part, I cease to breathe.
“I want you so badly, it hurts to breathe without you near,” he whispers softly, finally—finally—gracing me with his voice.
“W-why?” I force out finally, the word coming out as a pathetic squeak
“Because you possess my lungs, as you do my heart, Genevieve. And I intend to take yours for myself,” he answers, his voice deepening
impossibly further.
His other hand closes around mine, where I hold the blade to his throat. He doesn’t remove it from his skin but rather presses it in deeper.
I gasp, resisting, but he doesn’t allow it.
“I will bleed for you, mia rosa, but I must require you to bleed for me, too,
”
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