Vow of Deception (Deception Trilogy, #1)

by Rina Kent

I know he thinks he’s looking at his wife, and not me, but how lucky can a woman be to have a man look at her that way? Like he’ll destroy the world as long as she stays safe?

Don’t go. I scream in my head. She’s not me. Don’t go to her.

Anyone who dares to touch you will pay, too. In fact, if I catch anyone looking at you, they’ll wish they were never born.”

“Do you need Mommy too, Papa?” Adrian pauses before he says calmly, assertively, “I do.”

“I wish I’d never met you.” My lips brush against her forehead. “I’ll meet you over and over again if I have to.”

This woman is intoxicating. She crept under my skin and injected her black magic into my bones. Now, she’s the reason I breathe. I feel like if I stop touching her, if I let her go, she’ll disappear again. I’ll never have her again.

“What do I smell like?” “Like roses and fucking addictions.” “How do you know what addictions smell like?” “I didn’t. Until you.”