The Unbroken (Magic of the Lost, #1)

by C.L. Clark

but what, realistically, could she do besides harbor a grudge against them and call the debt later?

And you couldn’t own anything if you were owned yourself.

Always, always someone weighed her. Always, someone looked for the flaw.

Touraine was starting to think it was impossible to come from one land and learn to live in another and feel whole. That you would always stand on shaky, hole-ridden ground, half of your identity dug out of you and tossed away.

I used to be curious like your princess. Now I’m paying the price for that ambition.”

Sky above, Luca wanted to do right by that laugh.

Touraine wanted to apologize again. She wanted to start over and ask, How are you? And yet she was so tired of apologizing to people who didn’t care for her and hers.