Offered to the Triplet Alphas

Chapter-109. Love hate lies(18+)

[Xanthea]

A thousand thoughts raced through my mind in an instant as his silence grew heavy with an unspoken warning. A warning cautioning me to stay as far away from him as possible.

A crippling gravity radiated from Asher with a force that sent a sudden, inexplicable weakness through my knees.

The darkness around him grew denser with every breath I forced into my lungs. As if my very breaths were awakening the grim shadows that slowly stirred to life.

Even with all the warning signs, I was drawn to his darkness, to his danger. Ignoring the brutal chill that shot down my spine, I took a step closer to him.

I knew love was a sin in hell, but my soul was already damned and my heart hellbound. If treading in pain was my only fate, then I wanted to tread towards him - towards my demon lords. Taking a deep breath, I braced myself.

"Asher," I called. "Please look at me."

He gritted his teeth, a low, threatening growl rumbling from his chest. A cold sweat stung across my skin as I struggled to resist the instinct to step back.

My fists tightened as I swallowed hard, fear coiling in my gut.

The tension curdled the air between us, seeping into my bones. I knew beyond his control was nothing but chaos.

But no matter how stormy his aura became, he would always be my refuge. Because without him... I wasn't just losing my mind - I was losing myself.

I knew my confession wasn't as sincere as I wished it to be - my thoughts closer to the fear of isolation than love, and my intentions entirely selfish. But I trusted him more than I trusted myself, and all I wanted was for him to stay. "Please talk to me, Asher," I pleaded.

"There's nothing left to say." Although his voice was calm, there was a slight tremor in his words and breaths. "You've already made your choice."

My heart hammered against my ribs, turning more anxious at his words.

Was it love, or was it just the aching need to escape the suffocating isolation? I couldn't tell. My mind was at war with my body, but my soul craved his presence.

So, when he strode toward the door, panic surged through me.

Stay.

Stay.

Make him stay.

"There are voices in my head! Voices that are not mine," I blurted out, licking my parched lips.

I didn't know why I felt like I had to say this now, like if I didn't, I'd never get another chance.

Once I made sure he wasn't leaving, I took a deep breath and continued.

"Ever since I woke up... my mother's memories haunt my mind in a never-ending loop. I see Ezra and Raven go through all that pain again and again. One moment, I want to run to Ezra and beg for his forgiveness and the next I am terrified to even face him."

The boundaries between my thoughts and my mother's had blurred so painfully, I couldn't tell where I ended and she began.

"I keep having compulsive, disturbing thoughts. Sometimes, I have to repeat my name, over and over again, just to remind myself that I'm still Xanthea. But sometimes even that doesn't work, so... I call your name..." My voice, breathless and soft, faltered with each word.

than it heals right now. But of all the truths I need to accept about myself, this is the one I want to admit first: I'm in love with you...

step toward him when my body

Asher's frame like dark flames. Crackling through the air, they swirled across the room in all directions before they

waited for them to attack me, but they stopped inches away from me. My breaths turned into shaking pants, my chest heaving as I lowered

a moment, I inhaled him

out to touch

fingers grazed their icy

Asher grunt through his clenched jaws, and then

loosen before the shadows consumed me, and I blacked

my eyes to Asher straddling my hips. His light grey eyes darkened into onyx black as they pierced right through my soul.

lungs, racing as violently as the pulse pounding

to move, but his shadows kept me pinned to the bed. Their icy tendrils slithered over my skin, swirling and tightening around my wrists, ankles, and throat, leaving a

but before I could utter a word; his lips crashed against mine, a bruising kiss that had

writhing, unable to keep up with his fervent demand. I sunk deeper and deeper beneath his weight, the suffocating and the

out of my mind. He devoured my every moan, my every gasp, charging my body with a

slipped down my spine, curled around my thighs

fabric of

he tore himself away from me. We gasped for air, inhaling each other's

such a sweet manipulator, Starsoul," he whispered into

chest at the sound of him calling me

of my face, he lifted himself from me. His grey eyes gleamed with

at

words." Asher's voice was hoarse, yet dangerously calm, as though he

Asher," he said and I widened my eyes, my heart assaulting against my ribs. "Even with everyone around him, Asher has lived a lifetime of isolation. Give him a little love and he'll

into my chest like a sharp pang. Hearing him recite my thoughts out loud

my face to the side, averting my gaze. My

haunted my mind. Though I refused to acknowledge them as my

not me," I whimpered. "I can

know it's not you. It's your mother who won't stop fucking with your mind, so... let me fuck her out of

profound between my legs. It felt as though their tendrils had transformed

in the depths of

The sensations surged like wildfire, consuming me entirely. I arched my hips, breathless and desperate. Every flicker of their touch just

me.

the arousal, but Asher

My voice cracked, a mix of desperation and

he asked, his tone hoarse with dark

as his shadows slid deeper, fingering me harder, rubbing

you? You want me to fill you with my cum? You want my shadows to seal my

as I nodded frantically, my mind went numb as

down on my tongue with

voice was low

my words muffled and slurred around his

me to fuck all my hatred inside you?"

breath stuttering, before I

you, your villain will fuck you better than any hero ever did. Fuck love stories. Who wants to hear fake 'I love yous'

withdrawing his fingers and his shadows all at once, freeing me from all restraints but leaving me with

I shook my head, rising on my