Invidious (The Marked, #2)

by Bianca Scardoni

Truth fluttered in and out of my life like a butterfly, taunting me with its beauty—with its endless possibilities of change and triumph. No matter how hard I tried to catch it, to trap it inside my heart and own it, it evaded me at every turn.

The beautiful boy from my dreams turned out to be nothing more than a trickster. An illusion

It quickly became my way out; my escape from captivity. I didn’t have to live inside my pain anymore.

I could live inside my books, each one taking me further and further away from the barred windows that held me prisoner.

Reaper MacSteamy

but in that small moment, I was no longer lost. I was finally home again.

“I love you with the kind of love that isn't even love anymore. It's more than love. It's my entire soul. It's everything that I am or will ever be, and nothing will ever change that—not even Hell on earth.”

“I need to be prepared. I need know what my blood can do, and I have to do it before Engel or the Council does.”

The days of waiting around for someone else to ride in and save the day for me were over.

Smokey-the-vampire.

I was damned if I did, damned if I didn’t, and damned every other which way in between.

“I choose to make my own destiny. I choose to make my life mean something...even

Damn that stupid heifer for monopolizing his time!