In the Veins of the Drowning (The Siren Mage, #1)

by Kalie Cassidy

“You are… You’re one ambush after the next and I have yet to get my bearings.”

am the bug. A moth. And you are the moon. Drawing me, pulling me. But I’ll never be able to reach you without destroying myself. All I can do is pray for the day.”

“Do you understand? I am doing my very best to keep a grip on myself, to keep my distance, but everything you do seems in service of thwarting that goal.”

“I would have worshipped you,”

“You fill my every sense. You stalk my waking mind. You make up the entirety of my dreams.

“What I feel for you is beyond reason—beyond duty and desire. You have tipped my whole world on its side, and you are the one clear thing in the chaos.” His nose brushed the end of mine. “You. I want you.”

There was agony in his look. “If you are selfish”—he gave me a deep, luxurious kiss—“then I am a gluttonous, greed-riddled fiend for how badly I want you.”