King of Envy (Kings of Sin, #5)

by Ana Huang

It was the way she moved, with a natural grace that couldn’t be taught; it was the way she laughed, so whole-heartedly and joyously that it could chase away the darkest shadows. And it was the way she glowed, like there was a fire inside her that was just waiting to be unleashed.

I couldn’t stop thinking about her. And the more I watched her, the deeper my obsession grew, until its vines were so twisted up inside me, I couldn’t hack them off without killing myself too.

If you were my fiancée, I wouldn’t look at another woman. Entertainment or not.

Karma was a bitch with different faces. Sometimes it was an attempted assassination; other times, it was a fucking laser tag night with my friend, his fiancée who I was secretly obsessed with, and a model who clung to me like a barnacle.

Kada te konačno budem poljubio, nećeš više nositi njegov prsten na ruci.”

I teško onom koji pokuša da mi te uzme.”

Your mine Ayana and woe to whoever tries to take you from me

Wave after wave buffeted me. I was a thousand pieces of confetti fluttering in the wind until the tide finally eased, and I slowly drifted back to earth.

She was a splash of color in my world of gray, and before I knew it, I was ensnared. There was no way out.

“Joy doesn’t require the absence of grief,” my mother said. “We have the capacity to hold both at the same time. That’s part of the human experience.”

but vengeance had a way of turning ordinary people into monsters.

“Four,” she sobbed. “We kissed four times.” “Good.” I brushed a stray wisp of hair from her face and brought my mouth next to her ear. “Because that’s how many times I’m going to fuck your brains out in this elevator, srce. I’m going to make you come so fucking hard you won’t remember your own name after, much less how often you’ve kissed another man.”

the sentiment every time he uttered it. Srce moje. My heart.

“It’s because I wanted to do this under the Northern Lights. Last year, when we were in D.C., you told me you never got to see the Lights, and I wanted you to experience them. I want you to experience everything beautiful in this world, Ayana, and I hope you’ll give me the honor of being by your side for it all.” Vuk swallowed. “I originally had a much longer speech planned, but I’m not the best with words. We’ve never needed them much anyway; we’ve always known what was in each other’s hearts.