Heaven's Queen (Paradox, #3)

by Rachel Bach

“Yes, he did,” I said. “But if you think there’s a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don’t want to do, you haven’t been paying attention.”

True, I was still going to die and lose the only man I’d ever loved before I’d even gotten him, but at least I didn’t have to be sober for it.

“You are such a jerk,” I said when I pulled away at last. “Why won’t you let me save you?”

All this back-and-forth between hope and despair was starting to take its toll.

writhing like shadows cast by a fire.

After all, are you not the one who does what must be done?

so long as I had a say, the universe was going to change.

Now that my brain was capable of thinking such things again,

ninny.