Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)

by Lauren Roberts

“I pictured a different forever for us. One that took place far from here. But if this is all we get…” He pauses, eyes as silver as the moonbeams pouring down on us. “Then we’ll make the most of it. I will be your Enforcer. Your rival. Your secret waiting beneath the willow.”

“So bow at my feet with a sneer, if you must. I won’t see it with your face to the ground.”

My mind aches for a distraction from the deafening thoughts. And my body, tired as it is, itches to move. Or maybe I’m tired of feeling useless, feeling trapped in this life I don’t know how to live.

“I would lose my life for you before finding something else worth living for.”

“You are my inevitable. In life and in death.”

I’m breathless at the sight of her, doomed by the hope of having her. It’s a beautiful ruin, a devastating devotion. This girl holds my heart in her hands, could crush it between her fingers and still have me thanking her for the touch. And I hold her shoes.

“Being an Ordinary is not what makes you weak. It’s your heart.”