Edged By The Erlking: A Monster Romance (Monstrous Meet Cutes) by Wendi Guff

Author:Wendi Guff [Guff, Wendi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Monster Heart Ink
Published: 2024-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

ENDER

Friends.

Sera wants to be friends.

Can we be that with everything that I feel for her—with everything that I know?

I owe it to be nice to her. I haven’t made this past month easy on her.

In fact, I’m every inch the bastard she shouts at in her head, but I thought it would make it easier on Sera if she could distance herself from me.

Turns out, I’ve just made everything harder for both of us.

But I’m concerned if I soften even a little, I might crumble.

I crave her more than anything in all the worlds.

Even just the small taste of her that I had before has fried my brain.

I can’t sleep.

I can barely eat.

Only my duty to The Veil keeps me from completely falling apart.

Because I want to be her friend, but it’ll never be good enough.

I’ll always want more, and that’s not in any of my futures.

Not for the first time in my life, I curse my existence as an Erlking.

The damned visions have never brought me a moment’s happiness.

It’s just another albatross around my neck.

All I want is for Sera to be happy, and how can she be with someone like me?

She wants me to open up, but if I open up the wounds of my past, we both might never stop the bleeding.

And what about her parents?

They died trying to protect their daughter from a fate that never should’ve been hers.

The least I can do to honor their sacrifice is do the same.

I’ve already messed up by telling her that the realm is compromised.

She accuses me of having a hero complex when the Seraphim is worse than me!

Now that she knows, it doesn’t matter what my Erlking prophecies are, she’ll try to fix this.

And fail.

And then hate herself.

I loathe to admit it, but Sera and I are two peas in a pod.

Both of us would cut off our wings if we thought it would help anything.

But it won’t.

There’s no remedying the situation, which is why I’m cursing myself for telling her in the first place.

If I had just kept my beak shut like I had for the past weeks, Sera wouldn’t be contemplating how to repair an entire realm on her own.

Stupid, stupid, stupid me.

The only option I have now is to intervene and distract her as much as possible.

“We should go to The Valley of Souls.”

My abrupt announcement makes Sera snort. “You’ve been promising to take me there for a month and nothing. All you’ve done is become more taciturn.”

“I’m sorry,” I huff, not sounding particularly apologetic, even though I do mean it. “You’re adept enough to fly on your own. If you’re done eating, we can go now.”

Sera knocks back her chair because she stands so fast.

“Yes, let’s go!”

She grabs my hand, our wings bumping, and I wince against the fissure of lust that streaks through me.

My mate tugs me outside, and together, we push off into the air.

I take the lead, occasionally calling out to make sure that I’m going in the right direction.

Sera doesn’t talk much, for all her complaints of me being quiet.

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