Promised in Blood (Broken Bloodlines, #2)

by Sadie Kincaid

The desire to not put any of you in danger is what truly drives her. Her inherent goodness is what will always drive her. She will always put others before herself.

“I’m the most powerful being on campus, remember?” “You brought all of us to our knees,

So your powers are now capable of traveling beyond the veil that separates the world of men from the damned?

Because she is everything I am, everything I ever was, and all I will ever be.

“Tearing out a witch’s heart was my …” He pauses like he’s searching for the appropriate word. “Calling card?” Enora offers.

Son's back. Bet.

“It was your scent, and also not your scent,” Osiris says.

Called it.

“Surely you will allow her to pledge, Alexandros. It is cruel to deny her the opportunity to learn from her peers.

She is not their peer. She's above.

I will either burn in the light or drag you into the dark, little one. And whenever Death should come for you, I will offer Him one thousand souls in return for yours so that you will remain in this mortal realm with me for the rest of time.

It is the life-affirming, eternally beautiful reunion of two halves of the same soul. A soul forged from the atoms of the universe billions of years ago, when the world was still blinking its newborn eyes at the first sun. I have surely loved her before, and I will find and love her through every incarnation until the end of time itself.

“If we only feed chaos, then there is no hope of finding peace.”