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

by Sophia St. Germain

getting to know the parts of her that she could never share or speak of.

She’d do what she did best. Pretend, for a little while longer, that all was well.

She’d removed memories once… After that day she’d promised herself never to do it again.

Loche tilted his head, shifting his tousled hair out of his face. “Like what you see?”

If Merrick smelled like wilderness, Loche smelled like brightness. Like a cold winter night when the huge moon and millions of stars lit up the sparkling snow.

She should be grateful she’d had such a beautiful childhood, but there was only pain whenever these memories surfaced.

“Don’t forget I can smell you, Lessia. And I know very well what that scent is.”

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.”

“I would say I don’t bite—but I’m not a liar. Although I prefer to do it in private.”

“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.”