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

by Harper L. Woods

I felt you fall in love all over again, but with me this time. I see in your eyes that you wish you could take it back more than anything, but you can’t. Because you and I both know what you felt; we both know you loved me with everything you were. More than you ever loved your husbands in all your past lives. You still do, and you can’t wish that away, because you were born to love me, whether I deserve it or not.”

There will never come a day when I do not enjoy watching you bring men to their knees and cut their throats when they underestimate you.

The stars twinkled once before the heavens darkened as if clouds covered the moon and stars and plunged us into a void where there was absolutely nothing. Where darkness was our only friend—the only ally to bring about the end of all suffering. The end of pain.

I should have known better than to believe he was entirely evil. Real people existed in shades of gray.

Why was it that women were always so quick to judge other women? Why was it the woman we vilified, even when presented with the truth that the woman had been a victim of the same deception?