Miss Ubiquitous

He had gone to great lengths decades ago to shield her from the deadly monster he had become. He hadn’t done that only to come back and destroy her now…had he?
“Please don’t walk away from me”. Her voice trailed him as he reached to open the door. She let out a choked humorless laugh, full of pain and raw contempt. When she finally found her voice again it was soft with condemnation. “Goddamn you. How can you make me still feel this way after all these years? Damn you for leaving me! And damn you for coming back like this, just when I thought you were gone forever and I might finally be able to forget you.”
In spite of every instinct that shouted for him to put one foot in front of the other and take his deadly business far away from her, he paused.
She drew in a breathe, then blew it out on a defeated sounding sigh. “Goddamn you, for standing here and making me doubt every choice I’ve ever made.”
He turned to face her justifiable outrage. She was so beautiful and strong. Good and honest. And she was furious with him. He couldn’t look away from the steady pound of her heartbeat.
He was no longer in control of his thirst now, it had overthrown his will. It was all he knew now as he moved toward her.
“Why did you leave me?”
“To protect you”
“From what?”
“From the worst of me”
“I was never afraid of you, I’m still not afraid.”
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“One day you do meet a man who kisses you and you can’t breathe around it and you realize you don’t need air. Oxygen is trivial. Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset. To touch the one you love. To try again.”
― Karen Marie Moning