Romancing the Rake (Brotherhood of the Black Tartan #2)

by Nichole Van

No one should ever feel unloved or unwanted.

Men need to be needed, but women want to be wanted.

His Sophie. He had gone and done it. He was thinking of her in possessive pronouns. Words like his and mine and us. A man was done for when a woman started to alter his very grammar.

“My hate, all that bitterness and anger . . . it was only hurting me. All that energy, all that animosity, had nowhere to go, and so it was eating me alive from the inside out.”

“But despite the horrific pain, I also realized something equally important—hate and anger are fuel. Hate is a species of violent anger aimed at another person. When left unchecked, it can be incredibly destructive. But that hate—that anger—can be channeled. And so I decided to put that fuel to better use, to turn it into determination to move past Jack and his cruelties, to heal the pain in my soul.

And so I took that hate and molded it from anger into tenacity and strength and, most importantly, into forgiveness—forgiveness toward myself for being so incredibly foolish.