Chained (A Choice of Light and Dark, #1)

by Lacey Lehotzky

All I wanted was for her to look at me like I was her savior, and she needed nothing else in this world. It was an idea I’d been obsessed with long before I ever laid eyes on her. And I would make damn sure it came to pass.

Red flag #1

“It will take time. The wounds we carry on the inside never quite heal like the ones we carry on the outside,”

“If you believe you are helpless, you will always be helpless. If you believe you can do this, then you will eventually succeed. But you have to persevere and be willing to give it your fucking all. Don’t let anything hold you back.”

Didn’t she see that I was the right choice for her?

Red flag #2

What happened to me did not define me, but was simply an explanation for who I was and how I reacted.

I had power over my story, and I would own every word of it.

“You are whoever you want to be,” Endre said simply. “Don’t lose sight of what you want for yourself because someone else wants a different path for you. You will never be able to please everyone, so make yourself happy instead.”

She consumed my every thought, my obsession over

Red flag #3

her driving me to distraction when her safe delivery to Vaenor should have been my only focus.

Red flag #3

I meant what I said to her – once she surrendered to me, I would not let go.

Red flag #4

This need to possess and protect was driving me mad, but if I got Izidora at the end of it, I didn’t care how it went down.

Red flag #5

My secret fantasies were still safe in my head.

Joe from 'You' type of energy

Males. I would never understand how they could be so brutal to each other and then act like nothing happened after.

Same

Overconfidence is just as detrimental as self doubt.”

She was my addiction, my obsession, and I couldn’t bear the idea of not having her all to myself when we got to Vaenor.

Red flag #6

I’d rather die than let her go. It was time to lay the groundwork for these treasonous desires to come to pass.

Red flag #7

Too much of one thing will destroy the whole system.

How could one ever be certain what was real and what was not if their only source of information was looking through the lens of others?

This was how life was meant to be lived – no games, no tricks, only light and laughter.

A desperate man is a dangerous man.

Family isn’t blood, but rather who you choose to surround yourself with.