Accomplice to the Villain (Assistant to the Villain, #3)

by Hannah Nicole Maehrer

Because while Sage was on the other end of the wide office space—and though he had to strain to accomplish it—he could still hear her humming. He couldn’t close the door…and risk missing it. Even if the sound ravaged as much as it healed.

Don’t torment the boss, Evie! Unless you think of a super fun way to do it!

“I’d never. Even if all the magic in the land seeped from the ink on my skin and yours. If you’re hurt or in danger, I will find you. I swear it.”

“You don’t need to say anything back. I’m not telling you so I can receive platitudes,” she said fiercely. “I’m telling you because you deserve to hear it. I’m telling you because you deserve to know that someone does, very much, love you.”

He grabbed both her cheeks in his hands and crushed his lips back to hers. He shut his eyes tight, the way he did when he was in pain. Trying to show her with everything he had that he loved her, too. The destiny monster may have decided their fate, but it couldn’t have his mind, his thoughts, his kiss. And Trystan used all of them in that moment to show Evie he loved her more than life, more than breath…more than death. Kissing her more deeply, like he was defying the gods, defying destiny, defying everything that had ever told him he didn’t deserve the precious thing he held in his hands.

You aren’t hungry. You are in love, you emotionally stunted fool.

At the start of the world, the magical gods knew That color would bleed and all would undo. So to save this place they knew humans would break They enlisted the tools of Destiny and Fate. The beauty of stars that gleam at night The children of Fate, created in light And the magic that balances all dreamed of Is the key to saving the world in true love. The person who rescues the magical lands Will take this Fate’s youngling well in hand. When luck and starlight must fall together, The land will belong to you forever. But beware the unmasked Villain And their Malevolent dark— For nothing is more dangerous Than a blackened good heart. And when the tides turn All will be as it was The heart of the true prince Will save his fated love. Where sunlight beams unvarnished Rennedawn’s magic will begin mending. Evil will fall, kingdoms will rise. Heed this prophecy and all of Rennedawn Will have its happy ending.

Their screams of terror were music to his ears. Nothing better than that sound. “Trystan!” Sage yelled. Almost nothing. Almost. It was the last word she spoke before her eyes shut and she slumped, just as his magic gave out, disappearing.

One.... I love him your honor. Two if she ain't connected to his magic I SWEAR 👀

“It’s okay. I know it hurts and that it’s confusing. I won’t leave you alone,” she said into its feathers, and he was overwhelmed by how deeply the words affected him. How deeply every move she made affected him.

“You seemed to need privacy. I didn’t wish to embarrass you by pointing it out.”