Goldfinch (The Plated Prisoner, #6)

by Raven Kennedy

I told her I’d be the villain for her, and I was. Now, I need to also be the hero she would want me to be.

There is no growth without rot. There is no sun without the dark sky. And there is no me without her.

Then I walk away, leaving him to rot. Because that is exactly what he did to me.

One king caged my body. Another tried to cage my mind. The first is dead by my hand, and the second is due for a reckoning. He’ll get what’s coming to him.

After a lifetime of trauma and emotional manipulation and abuse, I have finally healed and grown enough to realize that. To say it to myself. I deserve happy,