Anya Returns
She stares at me with eyes of purple fire, a blazing phantom in the dark. My breath catches in my throat, and when I finally speak, it comes out a hoarse whisper.
“What happened, Anya?”
The woman I had known so many years ago grins.
“My eyes were opened.”
I wait for her to say more, but that’s all she offers in reply.
We grew up together, Anya and I. We were best friends, inseparable from the start. Our relationship turned intimate, and by the time we neared our college graduation we were already contemplating marriage.
That was when she disappeared.
Now, she rolls onto her side, pressing her body against mine, and I instantly grow hard with years of pent up longing. I have never felt an urge so strong. It overloads my synapses, drives me to the brink of madness.
This is a dream, I think. Any minute I’ll wake up. This close, I can see myself reflected in her spectral eyes.
Her family and I spent years looking for her. The police gave up in a matter of weeks for lack of evidence, but we kept searching, scouring her apartment, interviewing her friends, calling the numbers in the phone she left beside her bed.
Now, here she is again, lying in my bed as if the intervening years were nothing.
“You loved me once,” she whispers. Her breath tickles my ear. I detect the familiar smell of lavender and lilac. Her favorite scent, at odds with the feral untamed fire in her eyes.
Those flaming pupils bore into my own, extract my deepest secrets.
“I don’t understand,” I say, because there’s nothing else to say.
“Then let me help you understand.”
Her mouth opens, joins with my own. Another fire kindles, erupting to life inside my body. She leaps on top of me, hot to the touch, and I have no choice but to offer up my heart as an immolation.
“Love me now,” she says, and as our bodies become one, as the embers of an old love ignite once more, I glimpse the possessing spirit within and welcome it into myself.
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