Hollow (Crown of Hearts and Chaos, #1)

by Caroline Peckham

I supposed when you lived long enough, eventually the bad things began to pile up. One on top of the other until something so terrible came along that it cracked the mind and shattered the peace for good.

I wasn’t afraid. Not because he wasn’t terrifying but because it was so painfully obvious that he could kill me whenever he wanted to. Fear seemed utterly pointless in his company. Fight or flight would get me nowhere. I doubted it would so much as delay the inevitable. So I gave him neither and awaited my chance to slip away from him.