Vows & Ruins (The Legends of Thezmarr, #2)

by Helen Scheuerer

Since I found out that yet again, the laws of men can determine who and what I am in the limited time I have left in these realms.’

‘I have learnt to hold my words until they are most effective,’ she replied, surveying him with an amused look. ‘They’re the sharpest weapons that way.’

beasts kill out of instinct. Monsters, and humans, kill out of cruelty, greed, selfishness, agenda…’

‘It’s like asking me what’s better: a beautiful naked woman on her back or on her knees?’

‘You have no idea how much I want you. How I burn for you. You lit an inferno within me and it won’t stop. I can’t stop —’

‘I have many regrets in this life,’ he murmured against her skin, kissing a path down to her navel. ‘But not tasting you that night in the woods is one of the biggest. I need to rectify that now. Let me show you how much I don’t want you, Thea.’

every day is an adventure with us,’

‘Are you going to throw a storm tantrum every time you don’t get what you want? Because life will be full of disappointments,