Tempest of Wrath and Vengeance (The Legacy, #3)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

need. Someone to challenge her because he’d come to realize that was what he needed too. He craved her defiance, pushing her to rebel, and then he’d punished her for it.

“He sacrificed everything for me. The least I can do is sacrifice a piece of myself for him. I am asking you to let me do the very thing you would do for Tessa without a second thought.”

“I do not wish for a normal love,” she said. “And I choose you too. I choose us, even if our days are spent without light.”

For Luka who came for her again and again. For teaching her to defend herself. For believing she was worth it. For not demanding her trust, but earning it slowly over time. For letting her rage, but also insisting she learn control. For understanding that sometimes she needed someone else to take control, but that she also needed to learn to take it for herself. For letting her make that choice. For taking her to Theon when Roan was dying. For coaxing her through the dark and cramped tunnels of the Underground.

“You are my source of everything I hate about this realm, but you are also my source of the things I crave. You are the source of what broke me, but you are also the source of what saved me. You are the source of my fury, but you are also the source of every dark desire. You are the source of what I have become, but you are also a source of complete acceptance of who that person is. You are the source of my own self-discovery, and how twisted is that, Theon?”