A Twist of the Blade (Shadows and Crowns, #2)

by S.M. Gaither

He hadn’t planned to stay. But then he had seen her, bound to that chair. Injured. Bleeding. And it had ignited a fury in him that was stronger than anything he had felt in a very long time. Stronger than any fear of the Rook God. Stronger than his longing to return to his divine state. Stronger than reason.

“I don’t hate you. I just…want to.” He sighed, a corner of his lips quirking in a wistful smile. “I want you to hate me too.”

All he knew for certain was that he had fallen in love with her twice now. I answer to a higher power, he’d told her. But perhaps there was no higher power than this. Than her.

“I love you,” he said. She dropped the bag she’d started to rifle through. “What did you just say?” “I love you. And I always have—in this lifetime and in every other.”