My Blade, Your Back (Dark Forces #2)

by K.M. Moronova

“As mad as I am that you pushed me away, not very many people get to fall in love with the same crazy person twice.”

“I don’t know what hurt worse: watching you fall in love with me even though I tried to keep you away, or not being able to pull you against my chest every single night and hold you… Just holding you would’ve been enough for me.” He pauses and sucks in his lower lip slowly. “There could be endless versions of you, and I’d love each one as fervently and entirely.”

“I love you. I love every wrong thing you’ve done, every right. We are far from perfect, Cam. Even though I’m still mad at you, I never want to take another breath without you near,” I murmur as he periodically steals kisses between words, only drawing the corners of my mouth up more and more with each one. “I will always choose you, Em. Over anything. I want to prove that to you. No matter what becomes of me and the monster they made me, I’ll only obey you.”

“Even if our lives are shorter, I’m going to live every single one of them with you, Em. I love you. I yearn for you even in my dreams.”

“I loved you completely. In a way we never got to fully explore together. You were the sunlight over a frozen lake. The whisper of happiness I got to know. I love you, Em… I love you. Now, look away,”