Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)

by H.D. Carlton

“Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.” “Yours. Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll be expected to beg.”

You need to figure out your morals, and what you’re okay living with. Not what you’ve been taught, but what you feel in your gut.”

I'm strong enough to admit that even though my body can physically live on without you, I would never get my fucking soul back?”

"Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible."

“I’ve seen the woman who could hardly stand to be in her own skin, and the woman comfortable in a gothic mansion, at home with herself and the ghosts that haunt her. I loved both versions of you, and I love who you are now—someone full of both strength and vulnerability. Yet still, you carry fire in your heart, and that will never fucking change. They will never take that from you, Adeline.”

“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.”

“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 would kill for you—I have killed for you—but I would also put down a gun and never pick it up again if you asked it of me. The lengths I would go to for you are terrifying, little mouse. So easily, you could destroy me, and I would lie down and take it. I don’t care if I live or die—as long as

“You’ve taken my entire heart and soul and my ability to love another. Sometimes I hate you for that,”

Every day, we come a little closer to death—our bodies deteriorating just a little more. And if this is what dying feels like, then I never want to feel anything else.

“You will always be mine,” I growl. “Even in your fucking nightmares.”