Crush (Crave, #2)

by Tracy Wolff

“You spent one hundred and twenty-one days frozen in stone to keep all of us safe. If you think I can’t wait as long as it takes for you to feel comfortable being back with me again, then you really don’t have a clue how much I love you.”

“I’ve waited an eternity for you, Grace. I can wait a little longer.”

“I’ve always been a monster, Grace. You’re the one who’s made me human.”

Sometimes life hands you more than a new hand of cards to play—it hands you a whole new deck, maybe even a whole new game.

It’s a part of you, of who you are. And no matter what—no one can take that from you.”

the whole time. It was all you. That was my last idea. To let you go and see what happened if I wasn’t holding you back.”

“I’ll never make you choose, Grace. How could I when I know that you’d never choose me?”

My hands curl into fists, my fangs explode in my mouth, and though there were a million other ways I was hoping to break my newfound knowledge to Grace, the words come out before I can even think about stopping them. “Jaxon, if you wouldn’t mind, take your fucking hands off my mate.”