s*x in death
He was sobbing now—deep, soul-wrenching sounds that shook his entire frame.
"I have tried to kill myself," he confessed into the fabric. "In Life Six, I jumped from this very balcony before the sun set. In Life Eight, I took a blade to my own heart. But the Darkness won't let me die. It just resets the world and puts you back in my path. It wants you, Elowen. It uses my love for you as a doorway."
I stood there, stunned. For nine lives, I had hated him in secret. I had feared him as a cold-blooded killer. But he was just as much a prisoner as I was. We were two ghosts haunted by the same demon.