The Endless War (The Bridge Kingdom #4)

by Danielle L. Jensen

“You like to watch, don’t you?” Keris’s lips had abandoned the inside of her thigh, his eyes on the mirror.

not ashamed to admit there were multiple read throughs of this chapter

The sensation was like starlight, driving all thought from her mind other than that she was his. Would always be his.

“I love you, Zarrah. You say that I don’t know what love is, and maybe that’s true. Maybe there is some part of me missing or broken that ensures I don’t feel things like a better man would, but I know the way I feel about you consumes me. That it gives me breath even as it steals the air from my lungs. Makes my heart beat even as it cuts it from my chest. What word I give it matters little. What matters is that even after my bones are dust and my name lost to history and history lost to time, I will feel this way for you.”

“I want you to read to me instead.”

for the book girls, clearly