Savior of the Shades: The Complete Shifted Fates Series

by Vasilisa Drake

To anyone who has been scared of something and done it anyway. It's so much more possible than you realize.

I kind of missed the grump. Scratch that. I missed him like I’d miss a limb, constantly reaching for it and somehow handicapped by the phantom loss.

And beneath it all was an emotion far, far stronger than any of those. To call it love was an insult. Experiencing it secondhand was like drowning in a raindrop.

For a moment, the two of us just breathed. The universe was just our two chests, rising and falling as one.

I don’t want a life you’re not in. I want to be your strength, and I want you to be mine.

All I’d ever wanted was a person of my own. One who I could count on. One I would die for.

“Of all the things you’ve called me, that’s my favorite.” “Mine?” “Yours,” he agreed. “In heart, in body, in spirit.” I melted at the affection in his words.

I’d existed for a long time, but meeting her was perhaps the first time I felt alive.”

I want to be the person you look at in the morning and confide in at night.

My opposite in every way. But more than my opposite, he was my equal.

“You are so much more than that.”

I was made of hurt, and I was made of love.