Anathema (The Eating Woods, #1)

by Keri Lake

She was beautiful. No, beautiful was too weak a word. She was intoxicating. Exquisitely divine.

“Goodnight.” “Goodnight, Lunamiszka.” “Do I still annoy you?” she asked. “Endlessly.”

“I am angry at you.” The deep timber of his voice rumbled in my ear, and he spun me around, keeping in time with the other couples. “For wearing this dress. For looking so painfully exquisite, you’ve managed to draw everyone’s attention. Including mine.”

“Because I’m a jealous cunt who refuses to entertain thoughts of you lying next to another man. Is that explanation enough?”

She was his. Lunamiszka. My little moon witch.

“If preventing this plague means sacrificing your life, then I’ve no interest in saving everyone else. The whole world could perish of disease and famine, for all I care.” “Some would call that selfish.” I traced my finger over the deep ridge in his chest. “Then, I am selfish.”