Secrets of Alkrose (Alkrose Academy, #2)

by K.M. Moronova

“You are the sole source of my weariness. I can’t stop thinking about you. The way you bite your lower lip and suck in breaths when I’m too near. It drives me absolutely crazy.”

“I told you the bad guys get the girl.” He grins and withdraws from me, lying down next to me and pulling my body in tightly against his chest.

“No wonder Elias is so possessive of you. Your Shadow has quite the appetite,” he whispers in a deep, tempting voice. I bury my teeth into my bottom lip—his erection is pressed against my lower abdomen. “Elias might know how to please you, but I doubt those boys do. Tell me, are you satisfied?”

Only we can see the hearts. Emerai cannot hide anything from time. We see all the moments of a Shadow's past, what they’ve taken and tried to discard.

“I want you to remember me this way. As a nice guy, the one who wanted you to be safe and warm. Not the cold, cruel man you met in Barkovah. When you think of me I can only hope you’ll imagine the sky, the rush that I sent through your soul. That will be enough for me.”

“You’re more than the sky, Raine. You are the wind, the earth, the blood in my veins. I will never forget you.”

“I hate the things you draw from me. The things you steal away,” he says into our feverish kisses. “You drive me into utter madness.”

“This is goodbye, baby. I should have told you I loved you at least once⁠—”