Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

by Lauren Roberts

For every girl who has ever felt powerless.

Men would likely go extinct without women to coddle them.

‘Every girl deserves something equally as pretty and deadly as they are,’

And in this very moment, that something he cannot control is me.

‘Impress me, darling.’

‘Okay, so, I’m getting the feeling that you’re not… great.’

I love Lenny

She loves the sight of the prince pinned against a wall.

This girl might be the death of me. Literally.

‘I am more than willing to rip your dresses for you,

I am no one’s pawn.

‘Oh, darling, as long as you still think I’m pretty, I don’t give a damn what I look like.’

I have most definitely done neither of those things

‘Hmm. And did living in the palace teach you how to be a bitch?’

She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine.

I’ll never deny myself the chance of watching you watch me.’

‘Promise me you’ll stay alive long enough to stab me in the back?’

I’m so bloody bored.

She’s a flame, and I’m going to get burned. An ocean and I’m going to drown.

‘Remind me to make you smile like that again, when you aren’t dying, and I have all the time in the world to memorize it.’

‘If you die, I’m going to kill you.’

She’s too stubborn to die, and I’m too stubborn to let her.

‘Us. I like the sound of that, don’t you?’

Darling, I’ve never stopped.’

What has this girl done to me?

this had me on my knees

‘I may be an ass, but I just saved yours.’

‘And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you will allow me to stay in it.’

Few have the power to make me plead.’

‘I like this one. We’re keeping her right?’

‘Couldn’t resist me, darling?’

‘I love when you threaten to kill me,

‘Will you forever be the prize I am aimlessly trying to win?’

dead

‘Oh, darling, I doubt I could forget this.’

‘Once a bitch, always a bitch, I suppose.’

Now I’m angry and annoyed.

I only want to be deserving of her.

I never wanted her blood on my hands. Never her blood.

Paedyn is too strong, too stubborn, too special.

I am grief. I am sorrow. I am anguish alike.

We chose each other. And that terrifies me.

‘Oh, darling, I’m already dreaming.’

‘I can’t take my eyes off you long enough to give a damn about what your foot is doing.

I can’t stay away from her. I don’t want to stay away from her.

She is a devil. She is a deity. She is a man’s downfall in human form. She is my downfall.

Why did I ever think I could have her, ever think she would have me? Because beasts don’t get the beauty.

‘You’ll be lucky if I let you keep your head, let alone your hand for laying a finger on her.’

‘I don’t know that I ever lived before laying eyes on the likes of you.’

‘I don’t give a damn if you forget who I am in title, so long as you remember who I am to you.’

‘What do you want to call me?’ ‘I want to call you mine.’

We are Ordinaries. We are Fatals. We are the Resistance.’