Welcome to the Dark Side (The Fallen Men, #2)

by Giana Darling

just because someone is not who you want them to be, it does not mean they are incapable of good.”

Men forget to treat women with tender affection and platonic encouragement. Lust was no worthy substitute for pure care.

Zeus’s Lou. The girl who had recognized Zeus Garro as a kindred soul from across the church parking lot and run toward him as bullets flew all around. I couldn’t have him. I knew that and felt it like the echo of the bullet wound in my chest. But I could be the woman he’d created, the one he gave me the confidence to be.

We met amid a hail of gunfire and the first time we touched, a bullet connected us chest to chest. Don’t pretend I don’t know all that you are.”

I served him more wine, watching the red liquid bleed into his glass. “Not as well as you do, but yes.” My smile was sharper than a shard of broken glass as I accidently slopped wine over his hand and then turned to him. “Then you’ll know it’s fucking hilarious that you think you’re so scary because, Javier, I’ve seen scary. I’ve fucked scary and I stared him right in the eyes as I did it so let me tell you, you don’t have his smile.”

“You lose your moonbeam hair, your bombshell shape, and your sexual appetite, I don’t give a fuck. ’Cause I love your soul better than I love anythin’ else and that includes the fan-fuckin-tastic package it comes in. You got me, Lou?”

He cupped his hands around my face and pressed a kiss to the tip of my nose. “Love you even when you don’t.”

“A true fallen angel, too bad for heaven, too good for hell, stuck on earth like a living divinity.”

“He said something about God having different paths for everyone and then something about some princesses needing dragons to protect them instead of Prince Charmings to save them.”