I shoot to the edge as well, wrapping an arm around her waist to keep her from toppling over and breaking all the bones in her body.
“They may not need our help if—”
One second she’s in my arms, the next she’s not.
My breath hisses between my teeth, as I dart a look around, wondering how the hell she managed to fall even with me holding her.
“Shit,” Kai says on a surprised breath, and my gaze darts to the stampede Paca is now in front of.
“Stop!” she shouts. “I command you to yield—eek! Why aren’t they yielding?” she gripes as she turns and starts running behind the quad…that is leaving her behind very rapidly, while the stampede gains ground on her.
She siphoned? “She can’t fucking do that! How did she do that?” Kai yells.
“I have four fierce boyfriends! Can at least one of you get me out of this mess?” she calls up, clearly not to the point where she’s ready to face a stampede of monsters fearlessly just yet.
Just as I siphon to the bottom, flames erupt, shrieks emerge, and I lose sight of Paca. My heart pounds in my chest so loudly it deafens me to all other sounds, as Jude darts to the infernal girlfriend, who is blazing red fire uncontrollably.
Just as Kai slides up next to me, along with Ezekiel, Paca emerges from the flames, as the stampede drops in her wake. She struts through the flames, patting some of the stray fire on her dress to extinguish it, as she cuts a grin in our direction.
Then, she tips her head back, and… “Mwahahahahahahahaha!”
One other thing, aside from her hair, that didn’t change…is her voice. It’d been so long since we’d heard it, that it took a little while to realize how very exactly matched it is.
As she releases another evil laugh, relishing her small victory, my feet start moving as if on their own.
Jude beats me to her, surprising her when his lips crash to hers, and I all but knock him out of the way so I can do the same.
My heart is still jackhammering against my ribs, so I kiss her like it could be the last time, just like I kiss her every time.
“Don’t do that ever again,” I whisper against her lips, clinging to her.
She looks surprised, but Ezekiel tugs her away, kissing her just as desperately, as I run a hand through my hair.
“Where you go, we go,” he tells her quietly, adding to my command.
Kai steals her last, and we make an unspoken decision to leave the trials hanging and go enjoy our lives. Fuck this shit. This girl gives us twice the cardiac arrest than before.
She goes all too willingly, her legs wrapping around Kai’s waist, as she kisses him with a smile on her lips.
For all eternity, we’ll always have Paca. Even if we have to make new memories. But it doesn’t matter what she remembers. It only matters that she’s still her to the very core, everything that made us batshit crazy and head-over-fucking-heels.
Who’d have ever thought The Apocalypse was too busy enjoying her fucked up romance to end the world?
“Come, harem!” she tells us in her most regal tone that she uses too often when she decides to sound like she’s running this shit show. “Give me evil orgasms and feed me strawberries or something,” she adds very primly.
I smile to myself, idly noticing Jude and Ezekiel doing the same. As Kai siphons her away, her laughter rings in their wake.
“Mwaha…haha…ha.”
In the end, regardless of how many memories she loses, there will only ever be one Apocalypse. And we’re always going to be her horsemen.
THE END.
AUTHOR NOTE:
Thank you for reading! Confession time: When I started this journey, I had a few key points, and two story ideas.
First there was the horny ghost – in one story, she was the slowly re-manifesting Apocalypse. In the other, she was an insensitive, rude sidekick named Anna.
Four assholes – in one story they were raging dicks because…well…Four Horsemen. In the other, they were angry/broken and slightly ancient, as well as bored with living a life that wouldn’t let them die.
Two very different endings for two very different stories, despite their few similarities. The color purple is used just to give you a smile and a reminder of The Apocalypse. :)
Five books are written on the reverse harem story to follow this. It’s a different pacing than these books that had a race with an end-of-times countdown, because there’s a lot more world to build. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it just as much or more. <3
As always, I love the hell out of you sooooo much. <3 (This time it sounds like a hell pun.)
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