Monster in His Eyes (Monster in His Eyes, #1)

by J.M. Darhower

Love means seeing the beauty in the ugly, the light in the dark, and accepting that even if the lights are off, and I can't see what's in front of me, there will be something there to guide my way. Love means turning yourself inside out, handing yourself over to somebody else, and trusting them… trusting them to touch you, to handle you, to bend you, but never, ever break what you give them.

"I love you, too. Promise me you'll remember that." "I promise." "Good," he says. "Because I'm about to fuck you like I don't."

I'm in love with you, and I want nothing more than to keep you for myself."

"You handed over your body so willingly, like it already belonged to me."

He set out to destroy me, but he fell in love with me instead. I fell in love with him, and that's what destroyed me in the end. He says he would never hurt me, but he doesn't realize he already has. He hurt me by loving me. By being who he is. Because I am who I am.

I love him. I hate him. He's everything that's good. He's the worst of everything. He gives my life meaning. He'll take my life away someday.

"The opposite of love isn't hate, Karissa. It's indifference. You're a passionate person, and love and hate… it's not a far stretch from one to the other. They both take passion, someone getting under your skin and consuming you. And I ate you alive, sweetheart. You never had a chance."