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

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

No one should be this cheery. It was unnatural.

“My assistant is of great value to my business. If anything has befallen her, if she’s been harmed in any capacity…I will ruin you.

now: fear usually meant you were standing on the edge of something new, something self-altering, something potentially good.

“Get the deadlands away from my family or I’ll liquify your bones.”

These were the small moments of life, when one’s innocent view of the world was corrupted, when the magic curtain was ripped away to reveal something sinister or ugly. A moment when one stopped believing and viewed the world with different, weary eyes.

“You know as well as I, Trystan Maverine, that humans demonize what they cannot understand. It isn’t our job to educate them, just to live the way we’re meant to with the knowledge that being called a monster does not make you one.”

“I really don’t know how we got here. We had such a normal childhood.”

When someone revealed themselves to be something worse than what you thought, you were then tasked with sorting through what good parts within them were real, if any.

“I argued my way into this job, didn’t I?” She said this, of course, not knowing that the job was hers the moment she’d said she needed one.

Evie leaned closer as Becky said in a hushed tone, “There was no villain’s assistant position…until he met you.”

He was dumbstruck in love with her.