Rebel Witch (The Crimson Moth, #2)

by Kristen Ciccarelli

She wasn’t sure what was more upsetting: that Alex had loved her, or that Gideon didn’t.

A girl like you wouldn’t be caught dead dancing with riffraff, he’d once told her. How can he know if he never asks me?

I would have married you in a heartbeat, had you asked me. That’s how desperately I wanted to be yours.

Fuck it.

“Live in the darkness too long, and eventually you won’t recognize the light,” he told her. “You’ll become like the monsters you hate.”

“Who did this to you?”

Rune laid her cheek against the scar. “I would do it again,” she whispered. “Just for this.”

“Rune. Being married to you would be the honor of my life.