Carrion (Darkly Dreaming, #1)

by Amarah Calderini

To those forced to grow up too soon now finding their way back to fairy tales.

I’m not capable of being selfless or kind. I’m only capable of survival—even

“Such a murderous little thing, aren’t we.”

“The devil only tempts people to sin, Darling,” I reply bitterly. “I am the sin itself.”

Willa may not know it yet, but she will be my salvation. My penance. Even if I have to tear her apart to make it so.

“I know exactly who you are because you were born for me. And now…now, I will take what’s mine.”

And now that I understand what makes her tick, what drives her, I’ll never let her go. She’s mine, whether she knows it or not.