Opal Reyne

All Reia ever wanted was freedom.Known as a harbinger of bad omens and blamed for Demons eating her family, Reia is shunned by her entire village. When the next offering is due and the monstrous Duskwalker is seen heading their way, her village offers her an impossible choice - be thrown into the prison cells or allow herself to be sacrificed to a faceless monster.However, he is not what he seems. His skull face and glow eyes are ethereal, and she finds herself unwittingly enchanted by him.All Orpheus ever wanted was a companion.Each decade, in exchange for a protection ward from the Demons that terrorise the world, Orpheus takes a human offering to the Veil - the place he lives and the home of Demons. The brief companionship does little to ease his loneliness, and their lives were always, unfortunately, cut short.He'd thought it was a hopeless endeavour, until he met her. She's not afraid of him, and his insatiable desire deepens within every moment of her presence.But will Orpheus be able to convince Reia to stay before she's lost to him forever?

Duskwalker Brides: Book 1

A Soul to Keep

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“We wanted to make sure we appeased you, is all.” 

Orpheus placed the blonde-haired woman named Reia on the ground and twisted his head at her while examining her once more. 

. He could see she wasn’t missing any limbs and didn’t have the look of deathly sicknesses that seeped from the skins of humans. 

“I did not ask you,” Orpheus said, letting his voice come out as a deep growl. 

“I am standing here, aren’t I?” she said up to him, rubbing her neck before frowning at her hand as though she couldn’t fathom why him holding her hadn’t hurt.

SNOWY ONE… that’s kinda cute i like him

Is she angry with me or the other humans? 

“To help protect my people,” she answered through gritted teeth. He tilted his head when he was in front of her once more, looking at her clenched jaw and creased brows. 

“Yes. You will do.” He brought his gloved hand out from his cloak and offered it to her. “You will become my newest human, snowy one.”

i may have giggled and kicked my feet a little

A yelp tore from her aching lungs when he picked her up, lifting her off the ground and into the air by her waist.

“What are you doing?” she asked when he settled her backside into the crook of his elbow with his arm curling around her mid-section to hold onto her.

His hand spanned her side right below her breast, cupping her ribcage firmly to make sure she wouldn’t fall.

“You’re complaining that I am too fast, and you are too cold walking in the snow.” She looked towards him to find that he was already staring up at her, his glowing eyes blue once more. “I do not wish to slow down. I will carry you.”

is this supposed to have a double meaning or am i too perverted for my own sake

“I can toy with you freely when I am home. Here is not safe for a human who does not wear protection, nor comfortable.”

Another speck of drool dripped onto her cheek as the crunching of snow crackled in her ears from his snout and round pointed jaw pressing into it. His tongue was now resting firmly against her cheek.

Reia felt a cut of fear slash through her, and a laugh slipped past her quivering lips. An unhinged, panicked laugh. 

. Watching his open maw preparing to crush her entire skull, in what she was sure would be a single chop, to kill her was unbelievably unsettling.

She laughed more when her giggle echoed back through the crevice of his mouth as though she was answering herself from beyond the grave.

“Come, little human.” He gestured his hand out to present more of his left arm for her. “Let me melt your heart.”

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