Page 250 of Once Upon a Fable

My head cracked with a fissure of wrongness.

I’d been naked in Levin’s bed. Freezing and dressed in snowflakes.

Now I was clothed and on fire.

My mind made no sense anymore.

I was lost and alone, andshedid this to me.

She was the one to burn me, to feed fire into my blood and ash into my heart. Just being near her made my body sing and snarl. She was a witch with the perfect spell to ruin me, and if I gave her the chance, she’d collar me, leash me, and have me bowing at her feet. I’d shamelessly lick her toes and plead in the mud, begging and crawling for a single scrap of her attention.

Why did she have such power over me?

Why had I never been summoned to her before? No matter the sick and twisted games she’d command, my body would’ve obeyed. She would’ve been the only one.

I knew that with my entire soul.

She was a siren in my head and the conjurer of my body.

I’d never been so fucking hard.

Achinglyhard.

I didn’t know who she was, but she was the most dangerous guest I’d ever served. A single touch from her was a thousand needles of poison.

She has to pay.

My nose inhaled roasted flesh. My flesh. My tongue tasted musk. Her musk.

She still fought me, goaded me. Thinking she was in charge. Thinking she could fuck me, hurt me, rule me.

Not tonight.

Tonight, it’s my turn.

I shuddered as blinding desire shot through my belly.

So foreign, so unique.

I basked in it.

I got lost in it.

It was a gift, a curse, a beginning, and an end.

If I had to serve this witch for the rest of my days, then I would sure as fuck introduce her to the animal that she’d captured. I would teach her that even though I was worthless, I still had the strength to make her scream.

Chains snapped off me. Conditioning slipped away. They’d set me on fire to watch me burn.

I might burn tonight, but she’d burn with me.

We’d die together all while she submitted.

Die.

I want them all to die.

“Don’t do this! Wake up, for God’s sake! It’s me. It’s Ge—”