A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers, #1)

by Brigid Kemmerer

Jake grabs my arm and turns me around. His grip is almost painful. “You aren’t doing this, Harper. I don’t know where you think you’ve been or what you think you’ve been doing, but this sounds like an elaborate setup. If I have to drag you into your room and lock you in there—” All of a sudden he’s jerked away from me. Noah scrapes out of his chair in alarm. Grey has Jake’s arm twisted up behind his back and his dagger point sits at the soft bit of skin just below Jake’s ear. “You will do no such thing,” he says. I look up at my idiot brother’s wide eyes and sigh. “I wasn’t lying when I said he was scary.”

While I was writing this book, for SO LONG, I couldn't wait til I would get to this scene, because I thought for sure Grey and Jake would be immediate friends. Then I put them on the page together and I was shocked to discover that they didn't like each other at all. It's so funny how writing works like that, when our characters take us by surprise.