The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy (Dearly Beloathed, #1)

by Brigitte Knightley

But if she was the Best—as brilliant as she was beautiful, a researcher unparalleled, a friend cherished, a daughter beloved, a lover sometimes (Did anyone truly deserve her? Frankly, no)—why, pray, had she just been asked to care for the Worst?

(Sometimes her hair obeyed and sometimes it didn’t. Life was full of such anxieties.)

Aurienne, sick with convulsions of guilt, wished she could be as lackadaisical, but no—she was highly daisical.

(Such witchery, such witchery in a pair of bright eyes.)