Unbound (Confluence Academy, #1)

by Penelope Bloom

He’s beautiful in the way dangerous things often are—like the perfect stillness of a viper before it strikes. The moment of collapsed time when the danger is as clear as the impossibility of escape.

“I mean it, Nessa. Before you... I was fighting for revenge. It was only anger pushing me forward. Grief. Regret. But you’ve given me something I didn’t have. Something that matters. And I’ll do anything to protect that. To protect you.”