Song of the Abyss (Deep Waters, #2)

by Emma Hamm

In the first book, I made a forward of telling people to let the science go. Again, I'm going to say that again. There is no science in this monster fucker book, so please just sit and enjoy the nonsense.

Maybe that was what called to her about him. He was angry, and she was angry, and maybe two monstrous people were supposed to find each other. They’d either end up like a bomb or they would fizzle out beating against each other’s rage.

“I did not want her, and she did not want me. But the longer I was with her, the more I realized there was a strength in her heart that I admired. A kindness in her soul that I did not have. A wit in her mind that matched my own. She was unexpected and resilient in a way I had never attributed to their kind before.”

Every part of him was made to hurt every part of her. And here the sea was, pushing him to feed her. To care for her. To do whatever it took to keep her alive and tie them together even more than they already were.

“Ah, we used to play this game when we were children. You’d tell me to do something, I’d do it, and then you’d hit me. I’m not falling for that as an adult.”

You soften him, and I worry that if he loses you...” “I will not accept that pressure,” she interrupted. “We’re both adults and we both have always had the same goal.

“It means that living without you feels wrong. That to be parted from your side makes me miss you more than I miss breathing fresh air. And that I will always think of you, no matter how far I am from you.”

“That is what you have given me, kalon. Wherever you are, I am home.”

“Just because she is soft does not mean she is easily broken,”