The Darkness Within Us (The Shadows Between Us, #2)

by Tricia Levenseller

THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A BAD IDEA, JUST POORLY EXECUTED AWESOME ONES. —Damon Salvatore, The Vampire Diaries, Season 2, Episode 15

My husband is taking too long to die.

What’s most important is that I’m the better actress. I can pretend to be what men want.

but the king had them beheaded for the threats they dared to throw toward the future queen. No one utters so much as a hint of protest against the new laws now.”

They’re already calling her the Shadow Queen.”

Alessandra snuck up on me.

Attractive and man standing in the way of everything I’ve ever wanted should not go together.

“I shan’t bring it up again. I am and always will be your friend and dutiful servant.”

You are a man, and you will never know what it is to suffer as only a woman can!”

“She thinks you’re the Shadow King’s bastard. Maybe you should encourage that narrative,”

“When you hate someone so fiercely, they have to be worthy of that hatred.

“That’s why love stories about enemies turned to lovers are so popular,” Tekla says. “It’s the level of feeling. That intensity. It’s so dynamic.”

“You’ve been hurt by all the men in your life. I don’t want to be another one. I need you to tell me what’s okay. I don’t know where to touch you or where to kiss you. I don’t know what’s too hard or too soft, with my extra strength. I don’t want to hurt you,”

“Her hatred grew to such depths that she attracted the attention of a demon, a different one than that which granted powers to the Maheras line.”

There is just something intoxicating about a man who knows the true me and wants me anyway.

“This is what I care about. This connection. This understanding. You were made for me.”