Unholy Obsessions: A Dark Romance Novella by C.M. Radcliff

Author:C.M. Radcliff [Radcliff, C.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-09-20T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

ONYX

Selene fell asleep in my arms in the pool. I don’t move for a while, feeling my skin becoming pruned as the water laps around our naked bodies. It was well after midnight when I slipped out of bed earlier, and I was only down here for about twenty minutes before she came down and found me.

When I can’t sleep, I find peace in the water—specifically below the surface. It always starts out with swimming laps across the pool and ends with me on the floor of the deep end, pushing my body's limits until it feels like every organ is going to give out.

Selene understands it and never questions me about it. I know she has her own sort of abandonment issues after the way she lost her father, especially considering how close she was with him, even though it's difficult for her to develop any type of attachments with people.

That’s the thing about the two of us that makes no sense. We were both diagnosed with multiple mental disorders, but the one that stood out the most was antisocial personality disorder. It’s essentially the nice way to diagnose someone as a psychopath nowadays. That word alone comes with its own stigma and instant judgment from the outside world, which doesn’t understand the inner workings of the mind.

If you’re diagnosed as a psychopath, people ultimately assume that you’re some type of murderer or serial killer… and well, if the shoe fits, you might as well fucking wear it, right?

It’s unusual for people who are like us to become attached to anyone or anything. I think in some fucked up way, maybe stemming back to childhood, Selene was desperately attached to her father. He was her lifeline and it’s probably because she was essentially a replica of him. She was his prodigy, his legacy, and her ego ate that shit up.

He helped her understand herself when no one else could make any sense of her. With him, she didn't feel alone because she didn’t have to be anymore.

Then when he was taken from her, her entire world was turned upside down. Until she met me. Call it fate, call it destiny; we were meant to be together. It was like staring into a distorted mirror, another fucked-up version of myself.

Where I am calculated and controlled, Selene is unhinged and sporadic. We complement each other. And the only way to make sense of it is us being twin flames, two halves of one whole. She was the missing piece in my life.

We complete each other because we are the same person. Over time, we’ve become so dependent on one another, it’s like we’ve formed the same attachment that Selene had with her father when she was a child. And I get it—I totally do—but I also know how unhealthy it is.

Life isn’t guaranteed, especially when you’re living from one adrenaline rush to the next, one kill to another. The life we live is risky as fuck, and it wouldn’t take much for us to lose all of it.

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