Painted Devils (Little Thieves, #2)

by Margaret Owen

“You started a cult?” “No! I mean … a little?” My hands ball up in my billowing sleeves. “It’s cult-adjacent? Cult-ish?”

Little thieves tell themselves they take what they need to survive, and sometimes that’s true, and sometimes it’s a lie. Great thieves don’t fool themselves about their motives; they take things because they want them, end of story. The only lie they tell themselves is that there’s no difference between wanting something and deserving it.