The moon goddess chose wrong: twice
I closed my eyes, and the memory surged again hot, humiliating, intoxicating in its rage, he rejected me and humiliated me in silver and, threw me out like I was garbage.
And his new bitch had pinned me. Gripped my chin like I was nothing. Then that thing had poured out of her fingers into my skin. Not pain exactly. Something worse. A slow, greedy suction that pulled the very essence from my veins, my muscles, my soul. I had felt my soul leave me, For one terrifying moment, I had glimpsed death smiling at me through her fractured gaze. She had fed on me like a parasite, growing stronger while I withered.