A Vow So Bold and Deadly (Cursebreakers, #3)

by Brigid Kemmerer

I am … Regretful. Resigned. Exhausted. And the worst: ashamed.

“Grey once told me it was his duty to bleed so you would not.” I know. I heard him say the words. I thought of them when I watched a whip split open the skin of his back.

“On the contrary.” He takes my hand and kisses my fingertips. “You know all the ways to make me yield.”

“How can you ask them to fight for you when you won’t fight for yourself?”

“You once told me that when the world seems darkest, there exists the greatest opportunity for light.”