How Does It Feel? (Infatuated Fae, #1)

by Jeneane O'Riley

To you. My hope is not that you finish this book but that this book finishes you.

“I’ve recently decided I don’t like others touching my things, touching what’s mine.”

“You develop a taste for blood when you’re constantly licking your own wounds,”

“Until this moment, I didn’t know you could crave something you’ve never wanted.” His voice was thick like honey.

“That’s it. Good girl.” His voice rasped down on me.

“Very good girl,” he rumbled

“I am plagued by you.” Another light swipe of his tongue. “I am vexed with the thought of you constantly.”

“Because if you’re not dead, I fear I will leave everything to follow you.”

“You assume I’d be easily found if⁠—” “I would find you,” he stated with a look that sent so many butterflies into my belly it made the moths in my hair flutter.

“If you die tonight and I never get to tell you, you are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.”

I knew in that very moment I was so deeply in love with her, and she would be the one thing capable of my demise. The weak point in my unbreakable armor. I stared at her, and it scared me to death. It scared me to death what I wouldn’t do for her.

You have no idea the level of pain I will feel when you are gone forever.

“I can lose everything, but not you. I can’t lose you,” he whispered so quietly I knew I wasn’t meant to hear.

“I-I have tried so hard to eradicate you from where you now live inside me.”

“How does it feel?” he said, breathing heavily. “To know that I love you and that you have doomed me? That you and only you have the power to disarm and debilitate me. That you, a human, have dismantled every part of me and rebuilt it as a shrine in your honor.”