In Too Deep by Trejo Erin

Author:Trejo, Erin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-10-16T00:00:00+00:00

18

Imade sure Sage had everything she needed before I got myself ready to go. She has food, drinks, and anything she might need in the basement with her. I gave Juno rules too. Even though he’s my best friend, I want him to know I will slit his throat if he so much as touches her. He went upstairs, and now it’s just me and her down here.

“You comfortable?” I ask her. She nods her head, but I can see there’s something else bothering her. “What is it?”

“Do you have to go?”

“I can’t be with you all the time, Sage,” I tell her, even though I’d like to be. I need to finish this, figure this shit out, so I know what I’m stepping into with my father.

“Am I still a captive?” she asks. I chuckle now. Captive. I supposed, to a point, she is just that. My captive.

“Let me ask you something. If I gave you a choice right now to leave or stay with me, what would you choose?” She narrows her eyes at me as she thinks over my question.

“Are you giving me the choice?” she asks, still sounding unsure of her answer. I shake my head because I’m not letting her go.

“No.”

“Then why ask?”

“I’m curious, Sage. Would you leave me?” I watch her take a drink from her water and recap it before she looks back at me.

“I’ve lived my life feeling unwanted, Ares. I was given up as a baby because I wasn’t wanted. This is the first time in my life someone has actually wanted me for me.”

“What’s the answer, Sage?” I need to hear her say it. I need those words to leave her lips before I can even leave her. I don’t know what I’d do if she said she would go. I’d probably chain her to the wall by her ankle again.

“No, Ares. I wouldn’t leave you.” Just like that, everything else seems to fade away. The world doesn’t mean shit anymore. All that matters is Sage is with me, wants me, and isn’t going to leave me.

“Come here,” I command. She moves toward me slowly and stops right in front of me. I lift my hand and place it on my favorite spot around her neck.

“You know I do things, bad things, Sage. And for the time being, I don’t see that changing. There’s nothing I can do to stop it right now,” I tell her.

“Do you want to stop it?”

“Do you want me to?”

“I don’t want to change you, Ares, but I don’t want to see you bloody all the time either.”

“Understandable. I don’t know how to live in the real world. I’ve never had that luxury.”

“I don’t think it would be as bad as you think it is,” she says.

“If only it were that easy,” I tell her before dropping my head and pressing my lips to hers. I kiss her roughly before pulling away from her. “I need to go. I won’t be gone long. A few days at most.

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