A Fate of Time (A Shade of Vampire #77)

by Bella Forrest

"I think you broke mine first the moment you stomped into my life. And I let you. Hell, I smiled and welcomed the destruction, with arms wide open. But it's been the sweetest of mayhems! I wouldn't take anything back."

I suspected the universe itself might've played a hand in this. I'd always considered it to be an entity of its own, too big and cosmic to bother with life on an individual level, too bogged down in primordial rules to intervene directly. But strings could still be pulled, and pieces knocked over across the chessboard, enough to set things in motion and bring us closer to our objective.

I was a solitary rock in the heart of a desert. A thorn fallen from a rose's stem. A broken dream abandoned on the bottom of existence.