Page 129 of Property of Necro
Ducky falls asleep.
Before long, the sun dips below the horizon, and I yawn.
It’s been a long day, and yet it seems like it’s just now getting started.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
I rubmy masked face against my shoulder to stop my nose from itching.
“Coffin, take a breather. Drink some water. Get some air,” Doc Jones orders as he sutures Necro’s wound. I yank off my gloves, tear off the medical mask, and chuck both in the biohazard bin before I take a stroll around the room—the sterile medical box in the middle of Doc’s barn. The fluorescent lights are enough to give anyone a headache. The smell of fresh plastic sheeting and bleach is damn near nauseating. But I’m here. Necro needs help, and I’ll do anything to keep the stubborn fucker alive.
So far. We’re in the clear.
As long as he wakes up.
As long as he didn’t die too long.
Only a minute and forty-six seconds. The longest minute and forty-six seconds of my life. Because he heard her, and his heart couldn’t take it anymore. It spiked and then it stopped. It wasn’t even from blood loss, or so Doc said. It was Sola.
His ultimate sin.
The woman he literally died for.
Because he loves her.
He doesn’t know it’s love.
None of us knows what it really feels like. How could you when none of us has felt it before?
But I’m pretty sure that’s what this is.
The obsession. The need to see her, to make sure she’s okay, to feel her, to smell her, to touch her, to do anything for her, even if that means taking your own life, because she deserves better… and you’re tired… Tired of hurting…Tired of the demons that haunt your every breath.
I know how Necro feels.
Not fully.
But we’ve been brothers long enough. I know the signs.
He slit his wrists when he watched porn the first time.
For sinning.
For loving it.
For wanting it.
The pleasure. The chemistry. The hope.
It took years for him to be okay with sex. To even allow himself to have it. He made me pierce him over and over again to dull the sensations. I told him they’d make it worse, but he didn’t believe me.
Eventually, he stopped having sex altogether.
It’s been years since he fucked anyone besides Sola.
Years.
