The Succubus's Unwanted Keeper
He asked why, when Stuart hurt me and I was suffering, I never reached out.
I was quiet. He seemed to say many things, and also only one, "Don't be afraid. I'm always here."
The agony of a succubus' heat isn't soothed by a simple hug. Only a lover's devotion can water us back to bloom.
I used to despise myself for being a succubus—this frail thing that clung to men, forced to live on their pity, forced to bend and beg for a fragile, illusory affection. I hated the humiliation of it. I swore I'd rather have no life than that kind of servitude.