A Touch of Poison (Shadows of the Tenebris Court, #2)

by Clare Sager

I wasn’t meant to want her. I wasn’t meant to be this wrapped up in her, in the sight of her, the springtime scent of her, or the way she made me think of the crisp cleanness of fresh sheets or a new page. But I was. Good fucking gods, I was. Whoever had made her marry that man, I wanted to disembowel them. Slowly.

Because if that was all real—if what he’d told me was true… Well, I’d had something precious and beautiful, hadn’t I? And I’d lost it. They might say it was better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. But they were full of shit.

And when you have nothing left, even a scrap of something is important.”

“We only get to be brave when we’re afraid.”

Be smart, Bastian. Survive a little longer so you can take revenge for her. Then join her.

😭💔

“At your feet, all rules kneel. I’m no hero, Katherine, but, please, let me be your villain.”