The Mammoth Book of Erotica presents The Best of Lucy Taylor

For doesn’t love suggest being fed upon, fed on, annihilated within the palms of the loved? She realized that someplace in the past. It appears like it’s imprinted on her soul, encoded into her very DNA. Carried on her X chromosomes like a gene-linked illness. He places his hard-on to her lips, then the knife, then his cock. “Which one? ” he says. For a second, she can’t decide on. the single factor she fears greater than him is the idea that she may lose him. at the day that she's going to marry him (an complex rite at the East Coast urban the place his mom and dad live), she seems to be into the replicate as though right into a crystal ball and sees the longer term like an evil spell opened up prior to her. She can't go away him; she’s too a ways long past. She now not believes she will exist with no him. yet as her dependence on him has elevated, so has her hatred; she longs to pay him again for what she’s allow him do to her. quickly after their marriage ceremony, she comes into their bed room, pondering that she’ll allow him fuck her another time, provide him a last chance to finish it sooner than she does. She reveals him fallen asleep with the television on, hair like black fur opposed to the pillow, thighs parted simply enough that she will be tempted via his good looks another time. yet strong ladies by no means wish this. She places the pistol opposed to his temple, admiring the aristocratic aircraft of his jaw, the thick black lashes, considering what it might be prefer to fuck him with a bullet. yet she wasn’t raised like that. She isn’t intended to kill this fashion. No, her killing needs to be performed in increments and mystery. She places the gun away and springs to mattress. The previous nightmares threaten her, yet she takes solace in his epidermis. whilst she will get pregnant, he says he doesn’t wish the kid. a toddler will take time clear of him – he tells her they’ll be happier with out one. For the 1st time considering the fact that she’s recognized him, she stands as much as him. Her wrath shocks her and frightens him. the ability of mom love turns out to offer her get to the bottom of she’s by no means recognized. a toddler, she thinks, should be anything to belong to her – to take where of the existence that she's going to by no means have. For the 1st time due to the fact that she’s recognized him, her lifestyles soothes down right into a slow calm, a type of tranquil torpor. ultimately there's something of her personal he can't remove. the child is fit and lovely. She names it for her mom, and he or she loves it with a fierce and cannibal crafty. however the father is the single seduced and charmed. the kid turns into his little sweetheart. He dotes on her and plans for her a destiny jam-packed with independence and success. while the newborn is some months previous, she sits beside the crib one evening, admiring the wonderful thing about her daughter’s face, her giggling eyes and guileless zest. absolutely this baby may have a charmed lifestyles – in contrast to her cursed one. the newborn frets as she bends over the crib. She has her father’s mouth. the mummy feels a hurry of loss and loathing. How dare his daughter watch for the type of existence that she has forfeited. Black envy seethes within her. She searches her brain for a present acceptable for the daughter of the guy that she despises.