Full Measures (Flight & Glory)

by Rebecca Yarros

It was one thing to lust after him, but quite another to find myself…liking him as a person, not just a hot body.

You’re so busy taking care of everyone else, you can’t see that someone needs to take care of you. So tell me what you need, and I’ll be that for you.”

The silence was easy, but charged with what was unsaid.

I craved the sound of my name on his lips. He made it sound like pure sex and the sweetest prayer.

“We’re taking it slow until you say so, because I can’t bear to hear a ‘no’ from you. But here’s your only warning: I’m going to chase the fuck out of you.”

“Your father died. You did not. I did not.” She ended on a whisper. “It is the business of the living to keep on doing so.

“Lie to everybody else, December. Not me. I see right through it.