Scythe & Sparrow (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #3)

by Brynne Weaver

The show can’t start until you jump.

I might have been abandoned here, left in a cage. Maybe my wings have been clipped. But I can still fly.

“She might look cute,” he says as he helps me up into the vehicle, “but don’t let her deceive you. She’ll tear your face off to get what she wants.”

“Are you talking about me, or the raccoon?” Fionn huffs. “Both, probably. So I guess you’ll be evenly matched.”

“So cute yet so murdery,” I say, stuffing the gloves in my back pocket. “I think we’re kindred spirits, Barbara.”

“If you don’t want me to stop, Rose,” he says with a dark smile and hooded eyes, “then you’ll keep your eyes on me.”

“Good girl,”

“It’s okay to love your darkness and still love yourself. It doesn’t make you a bad person. It makes you a whole one.”

But I finally realize I don’t care about the illusion of light anymore. My Rose blooms in the dark. And all I want is to grow there with her.