More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
This time the chaos will take shape, grow jaws and sharp teeth, prowl the corners for any opportunity to attack. And it will have this city dance on its strings.
“These violent delights have violent ends,” Juliette whispered to herself.
Only he knew that if he screamed I hate you, what he really meant was I love you. I still love you so much that I hate you for it.
“How mighty you are,” he whispered quietly. “I am grateful that our roles are not switched, for I would have dove headfirst into the Huangpu should I be left in this world without you.”
“I used to think this city I am to inherit was descending into one ruled by hatred,” the girl says into the cold wind. “I used to think that it was our doing, that the blood feud ruined all that was good.” She looks at her cousin. “But it has been hateful for a long time.”
“I will fight this war to love you, Juliette Cai. I will fight this feud to have you, because it was this feud that gave you to me, twisted as it is, and now I will take you away from it.”
In this life they had been born enemies. In this life they had blood for miles between them, wide enough to run a river, deep enough to forge a valley. In the next, maybe there would be peace.
