Eldritch (The Eating Woods, #2)

by Keri Lake

“Clearly, you have no idea how irresistible you are if you imagine I can lie next to you even one night without the longing to touch you.” He rolled onto his back and tucked his bent arm beneath his head again. “How can I convince you that the only thing that could possibly force me away from you is death? And even then, I’d find a way to get back to you.”

Every piece of him that Maevyth touched had been rewritten into something he didn’t recognize. Something that felt like an unraveling, a faltering grip of the man he used to be. A corrupted soul not yet beyond redemption.

his gaze as reverent as a devout man falling to his knees before an altar.

“Centuries have gnawed at me, hollowing me to the bone. I didn’t know how starved I was, or what I craved, until I found you.”

“You’re a fate I never dared to dream, moon witch. The stars I was never meant to grasp. But seeing how this gluttonous world devours the unclaimed, I’m calling you mine.”

gahhhhh

I’d watched him lash his blade through men and monsters, with unflinching brutality, but the way he held me with such reverence, like a fragile relic in his scarred hands, had my heart clenching for him.

“Through the pain, you came to me.”

“We are written in blood. Born for each other. And not even the gods can tear us apart.”

“Fate could change the path a thousand times over, but in the end, it’ll always be you and me.”