Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)

by Kaylie Smith

She buried her face into the crook of his throat. “You came.” “You called,” he answered.

and then you found me. Because it seems that’s what we do. We find each other.”

You are the closest thing I will ever get to experiencing heaven, and I’m not ready to let it go.”

“In a different life, in a fair one, I would’ve kept you until my eternal soul withered away to dust,”

I would tear the universe apart at its seams if I must.”

“In all the darkness, in all the loneliness, you have been my one source of light,” he lamented as she began to come undone. “My soul will go to its grave with your name echoing in my mind.”

But… every single second I’ve spent with you has reminded me what it’s like to be alive.