What Hunts Inside the Shadows (Of Flesh & Bone, #2)

by Harper L. Woods

“I am not a man, min asteren. You’ll have to stop holding me to the standards you would place upon a human,” he said, his thumb caressing the length of my jaw.

“You’re a God. Fuck me like one.”

“Your list would be mercifully short, my star. There has been no one since the moment you came of age in your first life and the bond snapped into place.”

“Sometimes, we fight with the most fervor against those things that we need most,”

Where darkness was our only friend—the only ally to bring about the end of all suffering. The end of pain.

“The only time pain truly ends is when we enter the Void after death. To live is to feel pain.”

“If you are able to imagine your life, your future, without me in this world, then why would I want to live?”

“I love you. In this life or the afterlife, my star. I will always wait for you.”

There is nothing I can say to lessen your hatred, because it exists within you. It is not about me at all, but about you as a person and who you will never be.”

You may not believe you know one another, but you do. The soul remembers, even when the mind does not.”

“Never pretend to be something you’re not. Never dull how bright you burn so that others may feel comfortable in your presence.”