The Unseelie Crown (Maze of Shadows, #2)

by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Someday, all of us will return to the Earth. Some sooner than others, and some sooner than we would like.”

“Look at what we are. We were created from nothing—from remnants. From broken pieces of other things, we were formed. We have no shape. We have no name for what we are. We merely exist. Are we a monster?”

“We do not get to choose the paths before us, simply how we wish to walk along them.”

He embraced her like a lover. He laughed with her like a friend. He hunted her like a wolf. And he delighted in her fear like a tyrant.

A woman can never change a man’s nature, Abigail. Never. Not by any power, not by any measure of love or lust.

“You have never known a man whose love has been denied. For never is there a more tragic, nor dangerous soul than that. Heed my words.”

Where she summoned the gall, she did not know. Swallowing, wishing she had one of Titania’s bottles of wine, she spoke. “I am here to see a man about a boar.”

He nuzzled his head into her hair, basking in the scent of her. She smelled like Summer, like sunshine and fresh grass. Like the trees, and the warm wind. Her scent was all that he was not, and he wanted it never to leave him.