More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
He’d learned that dying, no matter how slow and painful the seconds before a final breath, was nothing compared to living infinite more days without the one he loved.
Never before had I known what it was like to crave dancing in the rain until I was touched by a night storm.
“If we’re lost or apart, we’ll look up and know we’re mapping the same stars. And should death part us, we’ll know the other made it to the skies when the star that shines the brightest gives three blinks.”
“I crave your warmth as much as you do mine.”
“I do. And it is a terrifying thing, what must come for our salvation if the star-maiden has indeed returned.”
“But he should have known a leash has two ends and it was only a matter of time before you strangled him with it.”
“You’re right about some things. I don’t give a damn about your friend’s life, but let’s call my stalking of you an infatuation. So hate me, fight me—the truth? I want you to fucking despise me. Your anger is my pleasure, your darkness is my light, and I hope you use it without apology to right every wrong you’ve endured, starting with this.”
“Your loss is deep, but you will heal. It will linger, but you will keep living.” I had no need to counter his words. The wound within me had been split open stitch by stitch and there was nothing he could do to mend it. So I lay back down and watched the fire rage. “Rest now. When you wake, the world will still be cruel and your heart will still be bleeding, but you are breathing, Astraea. And every breath is a reminder that you live for something.”
“You have … a particular aura about you.”
“Only when the crown shifts will your heart and loyalty be tested. Not all written pasts are true, and not all futures told are certain.”
“When falls Night, the world will drown in Starlight,”
“I have an obsession with you.”
“I’ve known many centuries of torture,” he said, so quiet it touched me gently. “And yet the greatest agony is you.”
“Because you are the brightest star,” he said, a murmur over my lips. “And the brightest star needs the darkest night.”
“I plan to savor every taste of you,” he purred close to my ear. “Feel every perfect inch of you, hear every sound I’m going to draw from you, and watch––” His head dipped down to where my hand disappeared. His growl was low and primal, dragging his sight back up. “Watch when you take me beautifully.” His hand slipped up my side, phantom teeth nipped my lobe, and I unraveled.
“I was going to list all the things you deserve, but fuck that—it’s not good enough. So here are my promises instead.” The black silk bedsheets clung to our skin, but all I could focus on was the fiery passion in his eyes. “I’m going to kill him. I will never say his name because I plan to wipe it from existence on this realm so you may never hear it again.” His cock slid against me, and his hand hooked my thigh around him to bring us closer. “I’m going to right everything he wronged. Give you everything he denied you. Worship every inch of the goddess you are, starting right now. Do you
...more
I thought I’d have the strength to look at you and not fall. But I looked at you … and I plummeted. I didn’t stand a chance.”
“I would meet you in the darkness. Every time you called,” he said quietly.
“Your soul is magnetic. There won’t exist a time or place where I won’t be drawn to it. And, love, you might look the same, you might remember everything we almost had one day, but here and now I’m falling for you. I found you with a steel heart in my chest, and for the first time in three centuries it doesn’t feel so cold. Not because of what you were, but for everything you are. Do you believe that?”
