Storm of Secrets and Sorrow (Legacy #2)

by Melissa K. Roehrich

“Fight it all you want, little storm, but you are going to belong to me. Every piece of you,” he said, echoing words he’d said to her once before. He’d meant it then, and he meant it now. “I will never stop fighting for you.”

“I’ll forever fight to keep you, Tessa,” he agreed. “I can’t breathe in the dark. I need the light,” she whispered in agony as she leaned into him even more, her power struggling and thrashing. “But too much light can blind you,” he countered. “You still need the dark to find the balance.” “In all things, there must be balance,” she murmured. “Beginnings and endings. Light and dark. Fire and shadows,” he recited in kind.

Every action was to get back to you as soon as I could.”

“If I am forever someone else’s, what does that make you, little storm?” “The same thing I’ve always been. Nothing.”

“Where we always have. On the precipice of destruction or salvation,”

“That facing truths is difficult, but deciding what to do with those truths is the greatest burden of all.”

“You were supposed to be mine,” she whispered, hardly able to keep her eyes open. “Not his. And he…”

He and I were always meant to destroy one another.

“You will forever be mine, Tessa. Whether in this life or in the After.”

“If you were my Match, I wouldn’t call you such a thing,” he said and her eyes darted to the side. Until he said, “I would call you my wife, my partner, my light. Anything but my Match.”

“You fear the dark because you crave it, Tessa. You hate it because you think you are alone there, but your nights would never be spent alone. Never again. That’s what it would have been like.”

“Villains and monsters don’t get happy endings.”

“Because monsters don’t settle, Tessa. They take their happy endings, even if they leave a blood trail in their wake,”