Sovereign (The Sovereign Mountain, #1)

by Raya Morris Edwards

She is, without a doubt, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen. On screen, on page, in real life.

If I had my way, I’d cut out his tongue to keep her name from his mouth.

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Right now, I’m reminded of a story about a woman who goes out into the wild to rescue her father and is snatched by a dark mountain spirit. She has to answer a riddle to get by his bridge, but in the end he lets her pass for a single kiss.

No letting go, no giving up now. We were meant to be like this, I feel it in my bones. I’m certain of one thing. This woman and I were made from the same kind of stardust.

I hate him. I love him. I want to kill him. I want to be his forever.

My eyes shut and against my eyelids I see our entire future laid out. Sons, maybe a daughter, running free on Sovereign Mountain. My name and hers together on the deed to our ranch. Hot summer breeze coming through the open window at night while I fuck her beneath the quilt after the children are asleep.

His hands are bloody so mine can be clean. And that’s enough for me to choose him. And I do—I do choose Sovereign.