Stay Silent (The Whispered Veil Duet #1)

Prologue

She’s so fucking beautiful. I haven’t seen anything like her before, ever.

I swear to whatever dark thing that watches me, she is carved from the last scraps of light this rotting world has to offer.

I’ve seen her three times and each time I think it’ll be enough to hold me over, to quiet the screaming inside my skull.

However, it only gets worse. It claws at my ribs; it howls for her.

She walks around, oblivious… to the hole she’s dug in my chest and how I’d scrape myself raw just to catch a wisp of her perfume in the wind.

There have been so many times I’ve imagined her silver hair wrapped tight around my fist. Holding her still so she can’t pull away.

I’ve dreamed about her mouth crushed against mine, desperate and bruising, until we’re both gasping for the same stolen breath.

I want to survive on the taste of her, and her alone.

There’s something about her, something not quite human. The dead hover around her like moths to a flame, drawn to a light only they can see. She speaks to them in hushed tones, the same as old friends. I’ve seen it. The way her lips move in the quiet, when she thinks no one’s watching.

But, every night I feel her under my skin.

The fact she speaks to ghosts doesn’t deter me.

I lie awake with my hand gripping tightly around my cock.

I can clearly imagine what her sweat will taste like when I’ve chased and caught her.

Fuck… I can even hear the noises she’ll make when she realises there’s nowhere left to run.

There’s a hunger deep inside me that won’t stop clawing its way through my veins. I would happily get on my knees for this woman. I’d chew through fucking glass if it meant I could bury my face between her thighs and hear her say my name.

Before the last eight months of this year rots away. I’ll crawl to her door if I have to, my knees bloody on the pavement and when she opens it, I’ll pull her into me so tight she’ll never be able to leave. I’ll bury myself so deep inside her she won’t remember a world without me.

Mo chainteoir beag taibhsí. (My little ghost talker.)