Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)

by H.D. Carlton

“I’ve followed you through lifetimes, Adeline. My soul needs you so badly that I’ve become a shadow, destined to hunt you for eternity.”

“If you think scars are going to turn me away, then you haven’t seen just how cruel I can be,” I rasp.

“Yes,” she whimpers. “But only because one day it will end.”

“You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.”

“I don’t ever want to be free of you, Zade. Not in this lifetime, and not in all the ones that come after.”

I will always want to rip Addie to shreds for my own sick enjoyment, but that doesn’t negate my need to protect her. To treasure and hold on to her like she’s the plastic rose my mother gave me.

We’re locked in the illusion with no way out.

Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.