In the Likely Event

by Rebecca Yarros

“She’ll be safer with me.” “Because you’re in love with her?” Torres questioned. I shook my head. “Because Jenkins isn’t willing to die for her.”

“Don’t, Izzy.” He shook his head. “I have one weakness on this entire planet, and you’re feet away when you’re supposed to be halfway round the globe.”

“If no one’s trying to kill you here, then that means I’m doing my job over there. That’s how I choose to look at it, how I have to look at it.”

“Because it didn’t matter how much I liked him. I would rather spend a week with you than a lifetime with him.

How could I need this woman so much and see her so little? How could she mean everything and yet exist in a completely different world from the one I lived in?

“I’m capable of a lot of things, but unfortunately for my own sanity, I seem to be incapable of not looking at you.”