Edward, his name was Edward.
Backing away from La Femme he remembered his given name. Looking into her eyes he knew what was next for him and having never before faced his own terrifying end thoughts cluttered back and forth across his mind. The lives he took and tortured, the person he was once and now [...]
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Cauchemar they called him and a nightmare he truly was. His very appearance was dreamlike; seemingly if you looked at him too closely he would float away into nothingness. Barely 5 ft tall and with a slim reed-like frame he was easy to miss in a crowd.
A mysterious melancholy seeped into the tavern and settled into the bones of the patrons as the door swung open letting in the oddly gaited waif of a being. The unease was palpable.
Everyone shifted and looked on restlessly as even more strangers filtered soundlessly into the formerly pleasant atmosphere.
His presence ensured the attack was over [...]
At least the new chair works just as I wanted it to. Thank goodness, otherwise that last kill may have gone differently. Another deserving soul on its way.
Being La Femme had its own satisfaction and right now I had no regrets, but Layla…was I still Layla?
Sigh did I want to be? She was so broken [...]
Perfumes this time.
Sensuous.
A sliver of scent with a pound of impact.
Here we go again.
Now I had an idea of why and instinctively knew where. She was in the room with me watching and waiting.
To be honest I didn’t give a fuck. This journey or whatever the hell it was, was not by my choice, it [...]
“Doc are you busy?”
“Layla?”
“Yeah it’s me are you busy? Actually even if you are I need your help…uhmmm now, right now.”
“We spoke about boundaries and how our relationship..”
“Doc. I am actually asking for help. Do I usually ask for help?
“No. You don’t. What is going on?”
“Lots, but right now I need you to come to [...]
It felt like a lifetime. It was exactly one month. One solitary month to the day I last tried to end my life. Who would have thought my life would still be mine and that it would have taken such a path.
One month.
My grandmother, Maman had died in that month, but this was the second [...]
Breathe breathe breathe breathe…
No, no, no not again, I failed again no!
I can hear their voices, concern dripping off their words. The faces that are so full of carefully contrived emotion. Just like before, it is all going to be just like before. No, please no.
The religions of the world say that only the Supreme Being that gave us life has the right to take it away.
But what do they know, fighters of wars and causers of destruction in the name of a Supreme Being no one has any actual evidence of seeing.
Why should I owe anything to a cause [...]