Reckless (The Powerless Trilogy, #2)

by Lauren Roberts

And yet, I still want her after everything.

I’m surrounded by the entire court and the only thing I can focus on is not falling to my knees beside her. Marriage.

Marriage to someone who isn’t me. Marriage to someone I will spend the rest of my life serving. I’ll lose her for...

To think I won’t have enough time to love her. My heart aches because every beat belongs to her. And I may never get to tell her that.

I could laugh. I could cry. I could burn this palace to the ground like I did her house, just for a chance to confess my love before the flames consumed me.

Because I am bound to her very being. Hers until the day she realizes I don’t deserve to be.

The king’s eyes are on me while mine are somewhere far away. Somewhere with her. A place where I am nothing and no one and happy being p...

This is not how I will remember us. Not as enemies or traitors or monsters, but as two people dancing in the dark, swaying beneath the stars. Her feet atop mine, h...

Just Pae a...

This will be the rest of my life. Forced to love her from a distance. Mourn the loss of her each day. But I will.

She is the torture I may not survive. Eagerly, she is my undoing.

Her gaze lifts, meeting eyes that are not my own. Eyes of the man who gets to have her—if she allows it.

She was supposed to be my forever. Now I’ll watch her become someone else’s. Because the beast doesn’t get the beauty.

KAI NOOOOOOO