Kill Switch (Devil's Night, #3)

by Penelope Douglas

When you’re in the thick all your life, living in ways you eventually figure out no one else is, you learn to sleep well in heat and eat fire. Until one day it’s all you need.

And as the seconds passed, and he held me there as my heart thumped in my chest, it was like we were teenagers again for a moment. When I liked the games he played with me. Before I realized I was the toy.

It wasn’t a matter of why he was different with me, but rather, now . . . I was different because of him.

After being everything I craved and needed, he made me fall in love with him, but come to find out, I’d fallen for a lie.

Every moment with her, I was real. I would’ve been faithful, and I would’ve died protecting her.