Gypsy Truths (All The Pretty Monsters #6)

by Kristy Cunning

I’ve been terrified…of a monster everyone else mocks as weak.

She said to take the apple products off the shelf. She told me not to grow the apples. She said it’d be used against me.

“By law, I’m allowed to use your body to set me free from a curse that prevents me from doing my duties to their fullest extent. Not even Sanctuary has a law to stop it.”

oh fuck no

I faint.

:(

But she runs when I’m insensitive. She’s young. She’s weaker than she realizes. She’s naïve. She’s far too trusting.

SHUT UP

I’ve seen her overestimate herself more times than I can count.

My smile slips when I realize how terrifying and humbling that all must have been for her.

I think their monsters loved me before they did.

“Do you guys sit around comparing notes on the things she’s told you or something?”

I’m glad you were stupid. That’s right. I said it,”

“Did he fall asleep after he rubbed one out without even bothering to tuck that tragic thing away?”

“This is anticlimactic,”

bru

I cringe for her. This is too hard to watch.

i hate him

I hear Damien hiss my name, but I’m willing to risk Violet’s pathetic wrath.

...

It…doesn’t make her powerful. For whatever reason, I still expected more.

fuck you

“This is almost tragic. I think I secretly hoped she’d be some epic freak alpha that would bring Idun down once and for all,”

fuck you

“I really think you should never tell her how stupid she looks for being so scared of…this side of her,”

FUCK YOU

“We were damning her if we were hoping she could singlehandedly dispatch Idun,”

fuck you

I’m embarrassed for Violet.

FUCK YOU BITCH

“She’s young, naïve, and completely ignorant to Idun’s ruthlessness.

shes not

Of course she’s mad. Any girl who thinks that wee monster is a match for the four of us…is clearly mad.

shes not

A poor man’s Simpleton monster. How can I break her heart that way? She genuinely thinks she’s fierce.

fuck u

“Because now I know who you are. You’re not Anna, the friendly neighborhood ghost. And when the guys find out who you are, I’m not sure they’re going to be happy about it. You should have been honest with me from the beginning.”

huh

Has anyone told Violet her monster is no match for an alpha? Probably not.

piss off

What does the monstar quad want with a wicked witch they’ve not crossed paths with for so many centuries?

“Our plan is to slowly dilute her infamy with strategic maneuvers over a series of decades that could span up to three or four centuries. At best it’ll be two. It’s that complicated.”

so basically yall suck balls

“Is there a woman you don’t look down on?”

no

My hand moves down my beard, as I really consider that. Is she that thoughtful in planning? No. Not possible. Not Violet.

You’ve been on top for too long if you’re overlooking it so easily.

Our only goal at the moment is to protect her from all the ways Idun can destroy her, because Violet’s too soft for what comes next. She simply keeps thinking too human.”

im so annoyed with them i literally cant anymore

“I’m putting in my notice anyway. You’re too much fucking trouble,” Shera informs her.

I don’t know how it happens. I don’t know where she comes from. Just as Arion and Damien are about to collide with Idun, Violet is suddenly there. Idun crashes into her, and I jerk in my seat, feeling sympathy pain for Violet— My own eyes widen when Idun’s body folds in on itself, as though it has just slammed into a brick wall.

YESSSSSSSSSSS

Damien snags Violet at the waist, and in the next instant, his hand is on her head. Her eyes slam shut, and she goes lifeless in his arms.

YOU BITCH

“I like the girl, but she never had any right to interfere with alpha business.”

cocksucker fuck u

Marta set her up for failure by never teaching her the way of our world, and for making her think her monster was something far fiercer than it is in reality.”

“I knew it was too good to be true. She couldn’t separate personal from business, and got caught up in her instinct once Vance was threatened.

“We were fools, weren’t we?” he asks.

“Of course we were. She was the first thing to give us all hope for something both better and different in ages, and…”

I fear the lives she’s risked tonight will be the lesson she’s needed to learn, and it’ll also be the one to break her.

she has risked NOTHING

It doesn’t make sense for Violet to taunt Idun. Even on a power trip, her dominance is so fierce that it’s taking all my control to keep my wolf leashed. You three have been arguing almost nonstop, unable to think clearly or finish full thought processes.”

Damien had to sedate her just to get her out of this situation, because she clearly lost control there at the end.”

thats so fucked up

So, yes, I’ve damn well returned to see her like this one last time, before she realizes how much blood is about to be on her hands.”

its NOT

“Idun’s actions won’t be on my daughter’s conscience,”

!!!!

“It was storming like this the night her head came off too,” she carries on.

If you see Anna, salt her. It’s not a ghost. It’s some sort of mystical spirit that haunts the mind and drives it mad. Usually it can’t be seen, which is why I didn’t realize it sooner. It’s always been trapped inside the mind, but it’s found a way to somehow show itself, using the ghost plane.

We missed all the signs that Violet was turning into a mutinous beta.

she was not

She’d still be blissfully unaware and mildly lost.”

bro

“I have more sway over my daughter than it does, or at least I did. Therefore, I’m the one person it’s jealous of,”

“I didn’t see much. I heard a woman’s voice saying something about shifters dying if they engaged in conflict with her, or something to that effect. But that was it.”

VIVI

It’s certainly not that puny thing you watched, mocked, and judged in the woods rather recently. That’s simply the monster she was born with.”