Tormented (The Binding Chronicles, #2)

by Elayna R. Gallea

Being dead would have been truly frustrating.

I needed her to live because she was the light that made my world shine. She was a brilliant gem amid dark grains of sand, a flower in a world filled with death. I needed her because she brought me life.

Words, once spoken, were infinitely more difficult to retract.

For her, I would be anything.

“Every single moment of every night, from here until the end of time, you will have me.”

“I love you more than books and research and science. I love you more than coffee and chocolate.” Stealing another kiss, I continued. “Sebastian, I love you more than anything else I’ve ever known in my entire life.”

I will never regret choosing you. Not today, or in a decade, or a century from now.”

Please wake up. Don’t leave me here.

“Life’s not fair, my love.” Sebastian pulled me toward him, kissing me gently. “All we can do is deal with the hand we’ve been given.

I wasn’t dead. I had assumed as much, but it was always nice to have some confirmation.

Why couldn’t I just keep my mouth shut?

I ask myself this frequently.

I supposed we had reached the part of the evening where the death threats were out in the open now.

Dorothea had been by earlier, and this time, I hadn’t even tried to kill her. Progress and all that.