The Final Gambit (The Inheritance Games, #3)

by Jennifer Lynn Barnes

“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.”

“Is it so awful,” he continued, “that I want to be a better man for you?”

“It was always going to be you,” I told Jameson. He needed to hear it. I needed to say it, even though always painted over so much. In response, Jameson gave me another crooked smile. “It’s times like this, Heiress, that I wish I’d fallen in love with a girl who wasn’t quite so good at bluffing.”

“Caring is a recipe for getting hurt, and I haven’t let anyone hurt me in a very long time.”

The knight returns with the damsel in distress,” Jameson declared as I made my way toward him. He glanced toward Grayson. “You’re the damsel.”