Welcome Home: A Dark Horror Romance by Maggie Fern & Callie Moss

Author:Maggie Fern & Callie Moss [Fern, Maggie & Moss, Callie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-11-29T16:00:00+00:00

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A Show of Solidarity

Crazy - Gnarls Barkley

Oliver

The normally quiet street is bustling with activity. Humans and their constant need for community has soured Cora’s mood. Her long hair is now dyed its natural black, skillfully arranged in waterfall waves down her back. The short, backless sundress has me clenching and unclenching my fists in an attempt not to touch her. My eyes reluctantly falling back into the bathroom where I’m supposed to be getting ready, following his hellish grooming routine. All this product makes my nostrils flare, the offensive chemicals he based himself with far stronger to my hypersensitive nose than others. I can feel it sponging into his skin, bleeding through to the one that lays underneath.

Cora lets out a heavy sigh and the smile that had grown on my face is wiped away, not even forced back into place by the now badly stained marble countertops. She’d left late last night going to the closest twenty-four-hour drugstore, and of course I joined her. She didn’t complain and I dared to hope me fucking her with my tongue set off a change between us. She’d made a beeline for the rows of hair dye. I didn’t ask. I didn’t need to in order to know this was something substantial to my love. That she was taking some part of her back. I watched in awe of her as she applied the chemical to her hair, being sure to stain every pristine surface she could. Muddying the trendy white and neutral tones with black. The smell was horrid, but my smile was huge. After hundreds of years cohabiting with humans and their strong smells, you get used to it. She could bathe herself in gasoline and I would worship her skin all the same.

“Are you ready? It looks like the party is starting.” She breathes out, her pale eyes turning on me. Her back cast in the moonlight and the glowing string lights from the street below robs me of any conscious thought.

“You’re beautiful, my love.”

A tinge of pink dusts her high cheekbones, her freckles on full display not hidden behind the ever-present makeup from his memories. Her wide, round eyes he always thought were too big for her face are unlined, unaltered.

The things I would do for this woman…

“I told myself I’d never do this again, that I didn’t have to anymore.” Her arms wrap around herself, subconsciously protecting everything vital. I’m not sure if it’s her wounds from the past opening or her mind’s unconscious response to me. I do know that this time, like yesterday when I approach her, she doesn’t look at me with fear and disgust. Apprehension definitely, longing yes…

I can work with that.

Her silky strands of hair feel like heaven between my fingertips as I run my hand through it, cupping the back of her neck. “I’m sorry you have to, but we-“

“Need to keep up appearances. I’m used to it, it’s fine… Oliver.”

My jaw clenches before I school my face. “You haven’t used my true name since the other night.

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