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

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

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

“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.”

“Sometimes family isn’t a thing we are born into but a choice we make. Sometimes”—Evie smiled—“the people who love you most in your life are the ones who choose you.”

And like her mother, Evie feared one day…she, too, would break. A tragic inheritance, seeing your mother’s flaws crop up within yourself and having the awareness to know it but no idea how to stop it.