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Beast
Date: 8/11/2015, Categories: Fantasy & Sci-Fi, Author: billybroadband, Rating: 13, Source: LushStories
hair. Perhaps because she had named me, or perhaps because of an innate weakness on my part, my feelings for her grew, and took on a less predatory affect. Despite the profound sense of duty that bound me to her, I began to hope that she might no longer be aware of my presence, perhaps remembering me in later years as nothing more than a creature born of an overactive imagination. I wanted her to escape that which had tied her fate to mine and to lead a normal life. And yet I watched and waited. Eventually she began to take lovers, one of whom was more determined than the rest. His ardor for Elizabeth he wore like a cloak, and she responded to his affections. I called him Romeo, as I detected an aura of tragedy about him. He was a handsome lad, and gained passage into her heart, and for a time I thought that she might escape me through him. They made a happy couple, for a time, with impromptu dances down the twilit sidewalks of our town. Their impassioned lovemaking was full of energy and urgency. Romeo bought her records, and music began to drift from her bedroom at night. The night was less lonely with the music of lovers and their laughter and their sighs of sated desire. Then Romeo was gone. I knew by her expression as she hurried past me one evening that a break had occurred and I tasted the bitterness that she felt. I would have reached out to console her, but I was made cowardly by my fear of her revulsion of me if I showed myself to her. She was close but not yet ...