Phantasma (Wicked Games, #1)

by Kaylie Smith

“That’s a risk I’m willing to take. Life happens. Even in death. No use worrying about things that haven’t occurred yet.”

I feel robbed of my first time laying eyes on you.”

“You don’t need to fix yourself. You’re not broken. But it’s okay to get outside help if it gets too loud.”

I was clearly still enamored with you enough to tell you about the key that would bring me my freedom. Something about you calls to me in a way I cannot explain, and your essence has always felt familiar, but I couldn’t figure out why. You mentioned you were looking for someone named Gabriel”—he took another deep breath—“and things slowly began to click.”

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

“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.”