A Tongue so Sweet and Deadly (Compelling Fates Saga, #1)

by Sophia St. Germain

A woman like you wants to be loved, deeply and without constraint, by someone who knows the true you and adores you all the same.”

“Lessia. You’re not there. You will never go back there. I won’t allow it,” Merrick urged.

She’d hoped for that kind of love when she was younger.

“Tell me. Tell me you burn for me like I burn for you. Tell me your heart stops when I walk into a room like mine does for you. Tell me you can’t stop thinking about me like I can’t go a waking second without thinking about you. Tell me you don’t want me to stay away.”

She inhaled sharply as his eyes pierced into her amber ones. She’d been right—they were dark. Almost black. But they also had swirling silver flecks in them, mirroring the pearly lock of hair that lay across his forehead. They were like a night sky brightened by a million stars.

Stepping up to the railing, she watched Asker grow smaller and smaller until the island she’d called home for so long was merely a dot on the horizon.

Silent tears snaked their way down her cheeks. But she let them fall. Let them fall for Amalise. For Kalia and Ledger and Fiona. For her father. And for Loche. For the man who’d put her heart together, only to rip it out and throw it away as if she were nothing.