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To fully immerse yourself in this chapter, I recommend listening to “Monster Under the Bed” and “Criminal.” (I prefer listening to those songs lol..)
I pressed send on the message, heart hammering like it would burst through my ribs.
I’ll meet you. Tell me where.
Minutes later, the reply came: 33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwPLSQsY3L
Café. Half past six. Don’t be late. 33Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCCa7kvkWJ
I bit my lip and stared at the screen. The familiar thrill of fear and excitement curled in my stomach. I knew what he was capable of — the sharp edge beneath his calm, the way he could make even the dead seem alive. Yet… I wanted him. More than I wanted anyone else. His name Cassian echoed in my mind like a dark promise.
I bit my lip and stared at the screen. The familiar thrill of fear and excitement curled in my stomach. I knew what he was capable of the sharp edge beneath his calm, the way he could make even the dead seem alive. Yet… I wanted him. More than I wanted anyone else.
When I arrived, the café hummed with ordinary life, oblivious to the darkness that followed me in. He was already there, leaning casually against the table, eyes tracking my every move. His playful smirk faltered the second he saw me. The fooling act stopped. The mask fell.
“Seriously,” he said, voice low, clipped, “are you done pretending?”
I stepped forward and let the tension between us settle.“Fine,” I said, smirking deliberately, my voice soft. “I’m glad we stuck them there. They’ll never come out alive.”
He tilted his head, a small, approving smile tugging at his lips. “Maybe they deserved it, after what they did to us.”
I reached across the table, fingertips brushing his hand. “I don’t mind missing them. I have you. And I love you, Cas.”
He leaned in, exhaled slowly, a predator who had finally met a partner. “Sure, El. We finally finished the plan. We fooled the world.”
I swallowed, the weight of our conspiracy pressing like velvet around my chest. “How about we meet again… somewhere private? I’ve waited a year to steal their info and make them believe they had to save you.”
His eyes darkened, steady, consuming. He let out a low laugh. “Thanks. I would never forget it.”
I smiled, small, secretive. “The secret should be safe between us. Do you remember what my mother said? ‘If two can’t keep a secret, either one should be dead.’”
He brushed my knuckles with a thumb, and the intimacy twisted sharp. “I remember. The secret is among us. It will be carried till our last death.”
The air between us tightened, charged. My voice dropped to a whisper, a vow and a shiver:
“They’ll never forgive us,” I said.
“They’ll never crawl out alive,” he corrected, smiling.
I laid my hand fully across his. “I don’t need them. I chose you, Cas.”
Their crimes became vows: every betrayal, every secret, cemented in kisses and coded messages.
The café around us faded. The warmth of the coffee, the chatter of strangers — all disappeared under the weight of what we had decided together. Our world was ours alone, and nothing else mattered.
Cas’s fingers lingered on mine, brushing slowly, deliberately, as if memorizing the shape of my hand. I leaned closer, letting my forehead rest against his shoulder. His heartbeat thumped against my cheek, steady, dangerous, familiar.
“Forever,” he whispered, his breath warm against my ear.
“Forever,” I repeated, my lips brushing the nape of his neck. The words felt like fire and ice all at once.
He tilted my chin up, eyes locking with mine, dark and endless. “You’re mine,” he said softly, almost a vow, almost a threat.
“I’m yours,” I replied, and the confession was more than words — it was a promise written in shadows, in every betrayal we had carried out, in every secret we had sworn to keep.
The rain outside pattered against the windows, but inside, the air was still, charged with the intimacy we shared. Fingers intertwined, breaths mingling, we let the world slip away. It didn’t matter who had lived, who had died, or who would remember us.
In that moment, all that existed was us: Cas and me, bound in a conspiracy of love and darkness, unshakable, untouchable, unstoppable.
I rested my head against his chest, feeling his pulse beneath my ear, and smiled. “Then let the world burn,” I whispered.
He pressed his lips to my temple, slow and certain. “Then it will,” he promised.
He stared at me so long, with eyes dark and consuming, that from the very moment I met him, I knew — I would love him, and he would only ever be mine.
ns216.73.216.122da2“In shadows and fire, we are eternal — and the world be damned.”
and then Add to home screen.