Bound by Ravens (Bound by Ravens, #1)

by Jesikah Sundin

Then he kissed me. A sweet, chaste kiss so gentle, I could taste his heartbreak slow dance beside the moonlight spilling into my pulse. Why did this kiss feel so sad? I drew in a hiccuped breath. Tears gathered on my lashes. I didn’t know why for him. But no one had ever said anything so kind to me before. I knew it wasn’t just about him complimenting my looks or trying to make me swoon, but him telling me that I had held rare magic over his kind, the only reason we still lived. He pulled back and brushed a tear on my cheek away with his thumb. The heartbreak I felt in his kiss both softened and sharpened his gaze. Then he stepped backward, strands of my hair slipping through his fingers as he moved into deeper waters. Our eyes remained locked. Questions blurred back and forth between us. This wasn’t real. I was confusing heartbreak for the pain I already knew he was in. No pity. No fussing. Cheating death made two people want to feel more alive, closer. A survivor’s bond, that was all. Nothing more. Right? This boy kissed many girls. I had seen it with my own eyes and for years. I was just one more in his count.

PLZ SHES JUST LIKE ME