The Alpha Devil’s Dark Temptation
“In every way that matters. The crown is yours whenever you choose it — not because the moon demands, but because my heart kneels to you alone. You are the light that ends my darkness, Maureen. The breath in my immortal lungs. The only eternity I crave.”
Tears spilled down her cheeks, sparkling in the firefly glow.
“I would burn the stars themselves to see you smile like this,” I continued, leaning close, forehead to hers. “I curse the centuries without you, and bless every second with you in it. You are my salvation, my moon, my everything — bond or no bond, I am yours until the gods fall and the world ends.”
She trembled, lips parting on a soft sob.
The fireflies swirled closer, wrapping u