Fearless (The Powerless Trilogy, #3)

by Lauren Roberts

“Every brutal act is born of love.”

Damn the pretending. Damn the hiding. Damn everything but him and us and this moment where I need him.

It is my turn to become the difference I always dreamed of being,

In love with a girl I’d have bowed to long before she became my queen.

Anger is too dangerous an emotion to let myself feel.

I don’t dare look in a mirror because what stares back is a mosaic of every mistake, every tragedy traced into my skin, and the looming shadow of each one to come.

“Why obey a man when I can be a far greater one?

Your secret waiting beneath the willow.”

Love and paranoia are quite fond of each other, habitually mingling into a suffocating protection.

But I will only survive this life if she does.

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

My A left me to decorate the sky.

let me force every person in this kingdom to their knees for you.”

there is power in choice.

“It will take far more than mere words to drag me from you, darling.”

“Don’t let her be your weakness.”

“I don’t want to gain power if it means I lose myself in the process.”

“Everyone loses themselves to something. So make it worthwhile.”

would know you in every life, Brother.”

“Death himself couldn’t drag me from you.”

“Then don’t say my name, and I won’t thank you for the sound.”

nothing this exquisite could ever be imagined.

“Then.” His hands cup my face. “Now.” My lips brush his. “Always. And I’ll find your shoes for you in every lifetime if you’ll allow