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

by Kalie Cassidy

For those who seek a home. May you find it, and when you do, may it be sturdy and warm.

How effortless it was for him to cut me, then mend me.

It is easy to be good when you’re blessed by the bloody fucking Gods.

He has never known what it is to exist purely for the use of others.

Just as sure as I was made of flesh and blood and bone and sea, I was also made of want. Excising it, draining it like a bad humor, would never do, but this one time, with this one man, I could stop myself from being the fool.

For I was as undiscerning as a storm, as ruinous as a tidal wave crashing, and I could never live with myself if he was caught in my devastation.

But if you are to devastate me, then let it be completely. Lay waste to me and everything that’s mine. A life without you in it is not one I wish to lead.”