The Songbird & the Heart of Stone (Crowns of Nyaxia, #3)

by Carissa Broadbent

She looked at him like he was a question answered. He looked at her like she was the only one worth asking.

In this moment, the boy made a vow: They could beat him, they could break him, they could hurl fists and ugly words at him, and he would endure it. But they would never take another precious thing away from this world ever again.

And then he said, after a moment, “I just played the notes that sounded like you.”

“It is an injustice, Mische, that this is what you got when you asked for love,” he murmured. “This isn’t what love should feel like.”