The Knight and the Moth (The Stonewater Kingdom, #1)

by Rachel Gillig

“Her care came with conditions. You bent yourself to fit them, and now… now you see yourself as this terrible burden. Like you’re nothing if you’re not the best, the most useful version of yourself.”

“It’s not true, you know,” he said. “You don’t have to be good, or useful, for someone to care about you.”

I need this man, not carnally but as my therapist.

People who love you for your usefulness don’t love you at all.”