Chapter 371: He Was Enough
Beau stalked away from the house, pissed that he wasn’t inside sleeping next to Hattie. If he wasn’t there, who would hear her soft snores, the cute sounds that she made in her sleep? He loved every last one of her movements, the way her eyes moved under their lids when she dreamed.
If he wasn’t there, who would watch over her from a distance, taking in everything about her?
He knew the small tells of when she was bored, or happy, or confused, or upset, or disappointed. None of the other guys seemed to see it, the hearts in their eyes for her blinding them.
He saw them. How could he not? It was almost like an insatiable need.
And now that he was walking away from her, it was like there were sharp blades in his veins, cutting him into a million pieces the further away he got.
He thought that he was just loving her in his own special way. After all, who wouldn’t choose the attentive husband over one who just constantly indulged her? But he hadn’t realized just how much of her that he had been consuming.
Beau let out a long sigh as the jungle parted for him, almost as if it was scared. Thorns appeared, venom dropped from the needle-sharp points, but it seemed to tremble under his gaze.
Shaking his head, Beau let his thought drift back to the woman who consumed him as much as he consumed her. His demon whispered that it was love, but the human knew better. It was possession. It was hunger and the desire to be her one and only.
To the human, it seemed so wrong, like a stalker in the darkness, but the demon didn’t see anything wrong with it. He was hers just as much as she was his.