You're Next (Devil's Backbone, #3)

by Tate James

“Good morning, Abby. How are you doing today?” I stumbled. Abby? Holy fuck. No. Suddenly, the mumbled response the vacant woman had given me made sense, and the knowledge rang like a fucking bell inside my head, loud enough to deafen me. The ducks. Ducks. Devil’s Backbone Society. Holy fuck, had I just met Abigail?

“Ne m'oblige pas à jouer avec ces autres salopards. La moitié d’entre eux ne connaissent même pas leur propre nom.”

and…it’d just go back to how it was—with me doing everything possible to act like I wasn’t completely in love with my best friends’ girlfriend.

I couldn’t bring myself to admit what I’d done, that my words might have cost the three of them the love of their lives. And mine.

“Sedated or not, I won’t be leaving without my fiancée, Doctor. Do I need to make some calls to your superiors? I’m sure it won’t take me long to work out who has the power to fire you.”

Ughh THIS MANNNNN

“Hey, pretty girl,” I whispered when her eyes opened the slightest crack. “I missed you.”

I’d simply pass away

“You’re going to be the death of me, Duckling,” I muttered under my breath as I buckled myself in and turned on the engine. Ashley was asleep, I was pretty sure, so I flinched when she replied. “I hope so,” she mumbled. “As soon as these drugs wear off…I’ll kill you myself.”

THIS

“I regret everything. I don’t know how to say how sorry I am or how badly I wish I’d made different choices. I didn’t just break your heart, Duckling. I destroyed mine.”

Heath: Every moment with you feels like a beautiful dream I never want to wake up from. You're the love I never knew I needed, and now I can't imagine my life without you. Thank you for coming back to us.

The way he kissed me made me forget everything for a few moments, and I willingly tumbled into that bliss headfirst.

“You’re so beautiful, Ashley,” he murmured, “So damn perfect.”

you’re mine now. And I’m never letting go.”

Royce D’Arenberg would not be treating me like I was breakable simply because I’d been through some shit.

A man like that did not deserve my respect.

This was how we were always meant to be, and I didn’t want to go back to anything less.

As if Royce would ever say no to anything you asked of him…ever. You could ask him to murder someone in cold blood, and he’d do it with a smile just to make you happy. That boy is so in love with

I could have lost you and I never even told you that I love you and I really fucking do. I really, really love you, and you nearly died today.

The concept of living in a world without you was utterly unfathomable.”

“Carls keeps finding wild excuses for us not to meet.” Carly threw up her hands. “Oh right, because a bomb exploding and nearly killing her was a wild excuse? Right. Silly me.”

Kissing him reminded me that I was loved and that this wasn’t a passing romance.

She was everything I’d ever wanted and feared in one beautiful person.