"He would die in this room, buried alive by the weight of his life."
- Christine Fonseca
"I never mastered anything. I am damaged. Broken. And I always will be."
"Forever. He carved the word into his soul. Kiera was his forever, deformity or no deformity."
"She slips into the seat at our table, refusing to look up at me. I reach for her hand, sending a shiver through me when our finger tips touch. She glances at me, her eyes filled with a feral fear that..."
"She smiles and snuggles into me as we wait for our table. I inhale her scent. Vanilla and something else. Something different. Smokey almost. Sexy. It drives me crazy with need and I have to move away..."
"Cass pulls from my embrace, her mind reaching into my heart. Pain, anger, confusion pass through her eyes. My pain. My anger. My confusion. She swallows hard. “Because?”“Because I traded it all, my he..."
"Every spot his mouth touches closes the empty spaces inside."
"A pang of deep longing ripples through me. I’m torn between my promise to send Aydan to the Abyss and my need to keep him safe. The opposing forces fragment what remains of my mind, breaking me down o..."
"What is love, Mikayel? Isn't it the most irrational of all human emotions? And the one most forbidden?"