Apprentice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #2)

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

how hard I fought to keep them. They’d been a gift from Sage.

aw

They’d been there all along, hidden behind the misplaced idea that women did not need to be watched so closely, that they couldn’t be any sort of true risk.

“It is fiction for a reason, you menace. By the gods, what if you carried out every impossible act you read about?” It was a rhetorical question, but she couldn’t resist the urge to slip into the normal ease of their cadence, like no time had passed. “Oh, I suppose that I would need to become very, um—flexible.”

hahahahahaha

He would follow her off a cliff without question. And Evie knew she was in love with him. Right then, right there.

“There is nothing written in any text, gods-created or not, that says we cannot be more than one thing. You’ve been told for a very long time that you are made for destruction, but there is nothing that says you cannot be more. You can be capable of bad and do good. You can do good things and still be bad. Nothing is set in stone, and if it helps, I’ll stand by you no matter who you choose to be.”

There was no emotion in his voice when he said, “Does your mind live in the gutter?” She shook her head, tapping a finger against her lips. “No, but it rents there on occasion.”

“Someone who’d like to know you,” he said. Tatianna scoffed, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. “I could break you in two.” The knight gave her a crooked grin. “Do you promise?”