Variation

by Rebecca Yarros

They both got what they wanted. Why doesn’t it matter what I want? Why do I only matter when I turn eighteen?”

I’d had no idea what to do with her then, but I did now. I knew hundreds of ways to distract her, and I had the suspicion she would make every single one of them feel brand new.

“I am glorious. I have a career I love, a man I can’t get enough of, a world-class brain, and an enviable designer handbag collection.