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

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

My gods, the woman was like the sun. He needed tinted glasses just to look at her.

“Unmask me, Evangelina.”

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

She breathed, “It’s so beautiful.” Her boss had been silent beside her, but now he replied hoarsely, still gripping her hand, “Yes, it is.” And when she turned, he was looking at her.

I’ve watched my boss cut someone’s tongue out for eating all the vanilla candies.”

“You think I do not care? As if thoughts of you and your well-being don’t plague me daily. Nightly. Every second we are apart! I watched you die! I thought I’d never see you again! I have never known such darkness, and I never wish to again. If you think that makes me overbearing, so be it. But do not ever claim I do not care about you. You are wiser than that, Evie. Do not be a fucking fool.”

He gripped each of her thighs, feeling them through the soft fabric of the dress, committing their shape to memory. For when he was buried beneath the dirt, when he no longer reigned as the villain of this land, he would have this one memory to carry him.

Trystan had asked her how to get free, not how to ruin his fucking life.