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Chapter Fifty-Seven
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2025-03-11 18:00:04"I was with Erik, kissing." I pause, and look at Larkin, who is glaring at me, but not like he's mad at me. I can tell where the irritation is pointed towards. "It came up that it was my first time... kissing." He growls again and looks away. "And I happened to ask how many partners he'd had. I didn't know that he was the one who kept the species going." I look down, fiddling with my fingers. "I don't really know why I ran. It just... hurts. I guess. To know everyone I had come across so far could have slept with him. Meanwhile, he was my first kiss." I roll my eyes at myself and clench my fists. This was a different world, with different rules. I shouldn't be so uptight.
But I can't help it.
I was raised around Mann, as they called them, and Mann liked to at least pretend to be loyal.
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Larkin is leaning against a tree outside, staring at the ground, I'm assuming listening to us bicker inside."You ready?" He asks, smiling softly at me. I nod and follow after him. At least he didn't make me walk in front. And at least he hadn't slept with the whole town."What are you showing me?" I ask as he guides me into the trees. He makes a humming noise but doesn't answer."How have you and your fated been getting along well? Besides the obvious." He asks instead, walking ahead of me and holding tree branches out of my way. I think for a moment."I don't think he's who you want to talk about." I play with the ends of my hair. He laughs, deep and rich sounding. I got that
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Larkin laughed at my question of how his siblings annoyed him. "How many siblings do you have?" He asks me, looking down into my eyes. I blush, looking away. His gaze was so intense, even when it was perfectly friendly. It made me nervous."I'm an only child.""Then you will never understand how annoying ten little brothers and sisters can be. They'd always steal my clothes from the drying line and hide them in the woods. When I was fishing, they'd come running up, screaming and jumping in the pond to scare away the fish. I can remember many mornings I'd get woken up by four or five of them jumping on my chest and demanding I get up to entertain them.""You love them though." I poke him in the side, teasing him.&nbs
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How could a man this large treat me so delicately? Even as Larkin towered over me, totally covering my body with his own, he didn't lay on me. He didn't grind his hips into me, and his hands didn't grab at my thighs.He gently sampled the taste of my lips, so, so, softly."You taste like dewdrops." He whispers, and then backs away, returning to his spot beside me. I lay there for a second, staring at the sky, collecting myself."Why did you do that?" I finally sat up, moving my hair so it provided me with a security curtain between myself and his carefully watching eyes. Guilt was already flooding my body. I had been with Erik so recently, and now I was kissing another man. Who was I to preach about loyalty?"Becaus
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Larkin nods. "Now my people do not want to mingle with Mann. We tend to live for a very long time, longer than even Alva, and we have third and fourth generation people left from when Mann originally turned on our goddess.""Wait, you know about that?" He nods again."We all have different history books. The Alva's is a bit more... polished. Cuts out the dirty truths. But we know how Sanju was betrayed by the Mann she loved, and how she brought them here as her slaves. How she forced them to breed so she could work their children to the grave as penance for what was done to her people. We have both hurt each other, and we see no good coming from returning to their world. It seems too risky. After all we've done to each other, there is no way there can be peace."I stayed sil
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"Let me show you something." I nod and follow after Bacudal as he crawls up the stairs on all fours like a child. The stairs are wooden, and honestly seem a little sketchy with the way they creak and groan under my steps.Upstairs is even more still and quiet, so much so I can hear my heart beating in my ears. I can feel a tense energy when I step off the stairs and into the empty hallway. There's another staircase at the end, probably leading to the tower, and two doors on one side of the wall, one on the other.I jump as Bacudal is suddenly in my face, staring into my soul. His mood had shifted from carefree child to serious, scary mystery creature very fast."If you act out of line in this room, you will never leave it again. Do you understand?" I swallow, but nod. He gri
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"Can I be honest with you?" Bacudal nods once, sharply at my question. "I have lived with Mann for a very long time... and I must agree with you. They are not good." I swallow again. I'm not just kissing his ass to get away, his story makes way too much sense. "I have always known that we are a parasite, we steal from the weak then sell their own goods back to them at a taxed price. We kill nature and animals and the world we live in. I know that.""Yet you reside with the Alva, and they do not acknowledge that. They treat Mann as the ideal." He tilts his head to the side, turning to crawl back on top of his eggs. He was kind of... twitchy? Ticked his head around a lot, and his eyes didn't stay still for long."I literally just learned that this was something you were fighting about." I slap my thighs with my hands.&nb
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Thankfully, after a few minutes of running after the trail of a long gone Bacudal, I can hear the commotion. People yelling, a lot of people, it sounded like. I followed their voices to where I assume I was supposed to be going."Okaaay." I say as I slow down when people come into my sight.Here we go.I could hear Bacudal's childish taunting voice, even above all the loud man voices yelling."I only took her for a few hours, you're overreacting." Someone said in a teasing voice."She wasn't yours to take." Someone else threw back."She didn't seem too upset to be here. That sounds like Tiekn. "In fact, she seemed a little put out with your leader's man whore mentality." Oh geez. I push through the lower halves of people, muttering out excuse me here and there. They're all very big and tall, and I genuinely don't think they even notice me shoving my way through. They're also all shouting insults at what I assume to be a group of Alva. I can't actually see, because all these people are
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"Okay." Is all I say to Larkin. I have so much more in me though. I wish we could've spent more time together. I wish I could've known you better. I wanted to know what he looked like in the morning, and what he was scared of, and what he loved. I wanted to meet his siblings and learn about his life here. But I guess we were skipping all of that. We were going from epic, star crossed lovers, to strangers.In just a second.I hope we're together, in another life.He doesn't say anything, just walks off back towards where we came. I stand there, my heart beating in my chest, my blood flowing in my ears, and tears burning at my throat.That hurt, I can't lie.I say once again, I've never had a boyfriend, or a whatever the hell Larkin was to me. So, I'd never had to deal with letting someone like that go.It fucking hurt.I let a sob escape my lips and fall back against a tree, sliding down it and burying my face in my knees, sobbing like a child. I hated that in the end, we just ended u
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