The Golden Cage Of Two Monsters
I was a prisoner of my own desire, a bird that had traded one cage for another, only this time, the bars were made of flesh and fire.
In the height of the moment, as the world narrowed down to the sound of our breathing and the ticking of the clock, my phone—discarded on the rug—began to ring.
It was the specific ringtone I had set for the hospital.
Killian didn't stop. He looked down at me, his eyes wide and crazed with a dark triumph. "Don't answer it," he whispered against my skin. "Let it ring. Let him wait."
But the phone didn't stop. It rang again. And again.