AllFreeNovel
Share Us
“I fucking want you to stay up here on this roof and stay the fuck out of my life.”
“Hog. Hog. Hog. All the time.”
“What?” I glanced at the little girl. “What the hell is she saying.”
The little girl kept her hands over the lion’s ears. “She thinks you hog the body.”
“It’s my fucking body.” I pointed to Lunita. “Get your own fucking body!”
Studying me, Lunita kneeled, placed her hands on her knees, and then leaned over. “Something is not right with you.”
“You’re one to talk.”
Still kneeling, she looked at the ground. “Anyway. he k-killed my Flower Man. Mean old lion. You couldn’t save him.”
My heart ached, but I shoved that empathy away. “Kaz would never share us.”
She lifted her view to me and went back to a standing position. “I’m not his.”
“That’s something we agree on. However, for these remaining days, stay out of my fucking body and life—”
“It is not your body!” She screamed and began jumping up and down. “It’s not! It’s not! It’s not!”
“No! No!” Now, the little girl clapped her hands over her ears as her eyes widened with fear. “Please, stop! I don’t like this part.”
Lunita went still and glared at me. “Get us out of New Orleans.”
“Why? Scared that your time is up?”
Lunita gazed at the knife in my hand and rolled her eyes. “You can’t kill me.”
“I think you are a figment of my goddamn imagination, so yes I can kill you.”
Lunita laughed. “We all thought that in the beginning. You’re just late.”
“I’m not. . .” I tensed. “I’m not late.”
“You just found out.” She raised a fist in the air. “I am real.”
“You’re not.”
“I have feelings. I have desires.” She kicked the ground in frustration, sending a flurry of petals into the air. “I am a woman. I am a superhero. This is my story.”
The little girl giggled.
I blinked.
Lunita gave me this strange smile that chilled me to my bones. Her lips curled upwards into this unsettling curve. She bared her teeth like a predator about to pounce. “I am you, stupid.”
I put the knife between us. “But which of us came first?”
Lunita quirked her brows. “Why would that matter?”
“Do you know?”
“I came before you.”
“Are you sure about that?”
