Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)

by Lauren Roberts

For every girl who has ever felt powerless

She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine. And I can feel myself drowning.

He feels too familiar. We fit together perfectly, pieces of a puzzle snapping into place. I shouldn’t let myself relax into his touch. Shouldn’t let the tension ease from my body when he holds me. But I can do nothing to stop it. Utterly and completely powerless.

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

He made me panic. He makes me panic. I let my mind get out of control and spiral, my deep-rooted fear of claustrophobia only uprooting after the initial panic that was caused over him. Caused by frustrating feelings for him.

No, we chose this. We chose each other. And that terrifies me.

She is a vision, a nightmare, a dream. A grim reaper clad in black, come to steal my soul and my heart. I’ve never seen something so beautiful, so bold, so blatantly wrong for me. She is a devil. She is a deity. She is a man’s downfall in human form. She is my downfall.

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

“Pae, when I look at you… I’m devastated. I’m drowning. I’m dying to catch my breath.”