The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games #3)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“There’s no such thing as fighting dirty,” I told Nash, “if you win.”

“Because I’m terrible at hurting, Heiress. And if what we have now—if everything we have now—starts to feel like another competition between Grayson and me, like a game? I don’t trust myself not to play.”

“But mostly, I can’t hate him, Avery Kylie Grambs, because he brought me you.”

“The only person I trust with all that I am and all that could be, Heiress, is you.”

“I love you. I would die to protect you. I would make you hate me to keep you safe because damn it, Avery—some things are too precious to gamble.”

You’re nobody—use that.

Max had told me once to picture myself standing on a cliff overlooking the ocean. I felt like I was standing there now, because love wasn’t just a choice—it was dozens, hundreds, thousands of choices. Every day was a choice.