Malum: Part 2 (The Elite Kings Club Book 5)

by Amo Jones

If you hurt someone enough, they acclimatize to pain, but just like a wound, if you don’t seal it, you’ll bleed out.

You can’t explain why people do the things they do or why they can be so vastly different. I’ve tried. Being surrounded by somewhat off-balance individuals for the better part of my life has been the biggest teacher of all when it comes to this.

You don’t judge an ocean by what you see on the surface the same way that you never, and I mean never, judge a King by his demeanor.

Betrayal is the feeling of your stomach being yanked from your body. It’s watching as someone you thought you could trust, throws it into an ocean of hungry sharks. It’s feeling your trust meter completely empty. But there are a few seconds after feeling this when you go numb. You stop and think to yourself, well fuck. Now what?

Love is just an anchor. It can either be the reason you drown or the reason you float.

You stay sane for yourself, because you can’t give people that kind of power. You have to make it—for you.”