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

by Giana Darling

“I got you, little girl,” he said in a voice as rough and deep as any monster’s, while he held me as if he were a guardian angel. “I got you.” I clutched a tiny fist into his blood-soaked shirt and stared into the eyes of my guardian monster until I lost consciousness. Sometimes now, I wonder if I would have done anything differently even if I had known how that bullet would tear through my small body, breaking bones and tender young flesh, irrevocably changing the course of my life forever. Always, the answer is no. Because it brought me to him. Or rather, him to me.

I stared at him, having a moment because Mum told me girls are allowed to have moments