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

What couldn’t be bought was taken—and

no one could do a damn thing to stop it. The syndicate leaders would do anything to keep every bit of power they’d stolen.

I wasn’t in a rush to feel that again. Staying single and having cats for company was a safer route.

I didn’t leave a glass slipper behind when I shoved him out of the subway car and ran.

Fate—the bitch—was on a roll tonight. Two for two, she was.

“You didn’t just endure all that pain to stay here and drown. You didn’t just show your family and everyone behind that mirror how incredible you are, just to let this be the thing that beats you.”

Why was it when the mind tried to protect you, it locked away traumatic moments in your life but then chose to fuck you over at the worst possible time by allowing you to remember it. Trauma unlocked trauma. Ain't that some shit.

Granted, I need to work out some shit with Malachi and he has some serious groveling to do—but he's still mine and I’m keeping him.

“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.”

Make no mistake, Nikki, with me you won’t get a nice normal guy. I will fight for you. I will love you fiercely. I will protect you with everything I have in me. I will do my best to comfort you and to treat you with respect, because

you deserve it.

I guess you can just fuck off and call me Snow White.”

A creature of living flame could burn hot enough without burning out.

don’t need or want perfect because I’m not either. No one is. Perfection doesn’t exist. It’s an impossible goal that you can’t reach even if you get close.