Covet Me (Immortal Vices and Virtues: Her Monstrous Mates, #1)

by Kel Carpenter

You can’t break someone who found strength within their own destruction. - Unknown

My mate—my first mate— had rejected me six years ago. Every time I thought about it my heart hurt. Malachi. My best friend. How could you spend your entire childhood with someone, grow with them, love them, and then just reject them when you find out they’re your mate?

That wound would always be there, a gaping hole in my chest that I had learned to survive with. Not live with, really. Just exist. By bringing her into this, he called attention to that hollowness and now I was angry.

If he wanted to drink black coffee and feel like a manly man for it, more power to him. My ego wasn’t fragile.

“The day I saw you was the day I took my first breath. I'd never seen the sun shine, and yet I felt like I knew what it was to have its rays on my face.”