Stalked by Seduction and Shadows (Eternal Obsession, #1)

by Maggie Sunseri

Though I could watch her body move and hear words leave her mouth, I couldn’t get close enough to peer inside of her. And that was what I wanted most. I wanted to gaze inside the powerful, haunted, beautiful mind of which I had only ever caught glimpses. I wanted to pry her open and drag her hidden pieces out into the chilly autumn air. I wanted to hold her trauma in my palms and

study it, find where the tears began so I could help her mend them. I wanted to know her void and how compatible it was with mine. My pain wanted to flirt with hers.

It’s difficult for mortals to recognize patterns from their own limited perspective. They can’t see the way their great grandparents passed wounds to their grandparents, their grandparents to their parents. They can’t hear the echoes of the eons, fathom the trauma they absorbed from something that happened centuries ago, spread through words and actions here in the present.”

“You aren’t even aware of the threats I’ve eliminated while you’ve gone about your day. The monsters lurking in the shadows, waiting for you outside a shop or café. I enjoy making men tell me what it was about you that caught their eye before I remove those eyes from their skulls.”

Besides death, suffering is what we fear most, what most beings try to avoid at all costs. The stronger are the ones that accept that all pain, emotional and physical, are the most natural and inevitable parts of our existence. Those who find a way to make suffering beautiful again are the strongest of all.”