Champion (Legend, #3)

by Marie Lu

“Billions of people will come and go in this world,” he says softly, “but there will never be another like you.”

Day just smiles at me, an expression so sad that it breaks through my numbness, and I begin to cry. Those bright blue eyes. Before me is the boy who has bandaged my wounds on the streets of Lake, who has guarded his family with every bone in his body, who has stayed by my side in spite of everything, the boy of light and laughter and life, of grief and fury and passion, the boy whose fate is intertwined with mine, forever and always.

“I’m twenty-seven today,” I continue in a whisper. My voice catches for a moment. “We’re the same age now.”

My heart is aching

For the first time in my life, I am no longer his little sister.

“I’ve been searching a long time for something I think I lost.”