House of Ash and Shadow (Gilded City, #1)

by Leia Stone

“And what if I go dark?” I whimpered. His face sobered. “Then I will jump into the shadows and pull you back to the Light.”

“Because she wasn’t you,” he declared, and I sucked in a shocked breath. “Because no matter how many times I kissed her, it wasn’t you.”

“I’m saying that from the moment I met you I’ve felt some spark of myself come alive that I long thought was dead. I’m saying that I can’t get the way you smell out of my head, and I dream about tasting you. I’m saying, Fallon Brookshire, that I don’t care who your mother is, I just want to be the person that makes you happy. It’s always been you.”