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But they were above it all, lost in a moment—in a feeling so fulfilling, clergymen had decided to name it ‘sin’. For was it not a sin to be loved by the devil? And was it not outright recklessness to love him back?

“For every lash I have ever laid across your soul,” he said, voice low, “for every chain and every lie, I kneel. And I ask forgiveness, not for my nature—but for ever pretending you could be anything

“I would’ve given you anything,” he said.

“What am I to you?” she asked, panting.
He kissed her throat, grazing sharp fangs against her skin. “Everything.”

In that moment, he looked less like a devil and more like a man trying very hard not to be one.

“Then hurt me,” he said, his voice flowing with the cadence of a slowly played bard’s song. “Give me agony, sweet thing. If that means I may yet look upon you, I will drink it like the finest vintage.”