Of Deathless Shadows (Alkrose Academy, #1)

by K.M. Moronova

Love is an expensive piece of bullshit, and its price is your fucking soul.

“I’d walk a thousand moons to never leave your side. The thought of you without me… It’s selfish, but it’s unacceptable. I want you. I love only you, Terra.”

“There’s darkness in you and it will reach for mine whether you like it or not. You can’t fight it forever.”

Raine’s loyalty to Barkovah was never a secret. I think the secret was that I was so drawn to it—a moth to the damning flame. Knowing that he’d destroy me to keep his followers safe if he found out I was a monster. It was a sort of melancholic game, one I knew I was never going to win.

We can’t fight what we are—what we become when left in the dark.

“You have the same moons in your eyes as I do. The other half of my endless night.”