Beasts of Prey (Beasts of Prey #1)

by Ayana Gray

Anything can be bartered for, if you know its true value.

nothing but disgust. “Not for Gede sympathizers like you, Okojo.”

I wonder if there is going to be more background given on this divide in the community?

Often, the beasts that lashed out the worst were also the ones hurting the worst.

“Maybe there’s a beauty in the scars,” she said. “Because they’re a reminder of what’s been faced, and what’s been survived.”

“Imagine you have held a heavy basin of water for a century,” she said. “Now imagine trying to pour that basin out slowly, drip by drip. It could be done, but it would require a great deal of control, an amount I don’t know that Adiah has anymore.” She sat back, thoughtful. “What she needs is another opportunity to get rid of it safely all at once, something like—”

He’d spent years burying anything that made him uncomfortable, upset, or nervous, and he’d run from his own nightmares until they’d hunted him down like beasts of prey.