The Throne of Broken Gods (Gods & Monsters, #2)

by Amber V. Nicole

So, no, Samkiel was who I was, who I would forever be, and Liam died with whatever part of Dianna’s heart fractured that night.

“When I burn this world to embers, and you paint me as the villain, remember, I really did try to be good… once.”

It is the highest law not to touch anyone in my court or what I consider mine. That act alone is punishable by death, and she is mine. It will be your end.”

Some things you must endure yourself. Some things are meant to happen. You see death and assume it is against you, but death is natural. It is not cruel or kind. Death takes no sides. Death does not discriminate or hate. It just is and has remained since the first living being existed and will be here long after. It may hurt, but it happens to all.

“You’re a fool if you think I would be happy in a world where you did not exist.”

Don’t refute what you need because you fear the pain it could bring.

Paradise, that’s what she was to me and what I’d so desperately miss. I knew that even in death, I’d find no peace in the afterlife, for there was no peace without her.