The Darkest Corner of the Heart (The Brightest Light #2)

by Lisina Coney

“Good girl.” Oh, hell.

“Get out of here before I make you swallow your own fucking teeth for putting your hands on my girl.”

Nobody messes with you and lives to tell the tale, baby. Not while I’m here.”

“If you say we’re only fuck buddies, I’m going to spank that ass of yours until it turns bright red.” “Don’t threaten me with a good time.”

The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb is the full quote, and it means that the bonds we make by choice are more important than the people we are bound to by the water of the womb.

“The fact that I failed doesn’t make you a winner.”

“You’re not his daughter, Maddie. You never were—not in the way that matters. You might have his genes, but you’re mine. Ours. You’ve never owed him anything, and you sure as fuck won’t start owing him now. The fact that he’s dead doesn’t invalidate your hatred, and it doesn’t erase the fact that he was a fuckup who never deserved you in the first place.”

“We can’t control how we react to others or how much pain or love they leave within us.”