The Ballad of Never After (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #2)
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“You think I cook?”
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My brain is rotten
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He dropped the bread, hardened his jaw, narrowed his eyes on Evangeline, then slowly lowered his stormy gaze to the chain around her neck.
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Ahhh fuck
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“I think you’ve been naughty, Little Fox.”
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Busted
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and then he ripped the stone from the chain.
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Thats why the first girl switched sides
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“Why do you want to open the Valory Arch?”
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Im scared to turn the page now
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“I don’t want to open it at all.”
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Thats not what I expected also werent the stones supposed to not work on him or was it just the luck one
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arms crossed over each other as one shoulder leaned casually against the frame.
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Fuck me
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Jacks was really the Archer.
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Yup yup yup
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“What happened?” Evangeline gasped. “I was just being myself.” Jacks staggered back, half collapsing on a bench in the entry.
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LMFAOOOOOOOOOOO
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“It’s just a knife to the ribs.”
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Billy Tough Knuckles over here
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“Only because I wanted to take off your clothes.”
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JESUS MY GUY LMAOOOOOO
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“That feels good,”
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“You feel good, too.”
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“I mean … it’s just one night,” he said softly. “In the morning, you can forget it. You can go back to pretending you don’t like me, and I can pretend that I don’t care. But for tonight, let me pretend you’re mine.”
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Gyat damn guys
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She meant to say, For tonight, I’m yours, but all that came out was “I’m yours.”
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“I suppose I owe him an apology for stabbing him with that butter knife, then.”
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Mystery solved
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“Listen to me carefully. You’ve been missing for weeks, Evangeline. We all thought you were dead until Jacks appeared a few days ago. I think he has the mirth stone and it’s clouding his judgment.”
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Can she have a moment of peace
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holding her to him as if touching were a form of breathing.
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Her little dragon immediately claimed the chocolate pot.
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I need a freaking dragon please
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“Tomorrow, I won’t let you leave so easily.”
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There wont be any tomorrow gng
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He shook his head reproachfully and tugged her onto his lap.
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I changed my mind leave the stone
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He swallowed hard and clenched his jaw. “You have no idea what I’m feeling now.” He looked at her lips, and the most tortured expression she’d ever seen crossed his face.
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as if he wanted to destroy her and make her his queen all at once.
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This earned her another glare from Jacks as they stepped through.
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Yeah no he gotta be pregnant
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Then she gently knocked it off.
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Well that cant be good
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Evangeline forced herself to put the lid back on top of the iron jar.
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Thank god
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The terror inside her grew wings as his eyes turned from brown to red and his hands began to squeeze.
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Please dont tell me shes naked </3
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But then Jacks picked her up. She clung to him and buried her head in his shoulder.
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His face had all the agony of a fallen star, broken and beautiful, with eyes so blue, the color of everything else looked dull.
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“You’re still bleeding.” He licked the center of her lips, soft and agonizingly slow.
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Two books long foreplay is honestly madness
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“What are you so afraid of?”
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Enough Anna
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a person has the power to return to any moment in their past.
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HES GONNA SAVE THE FOX
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“I want to return to the moment I met Donatella.”
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right
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“She was supposed to be my one true love—I want another chance at that.”
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Call me a naive bitch
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“What about you? Will we ever meet?” “No.”
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And he was standing there eating an apple.
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Nonchalant aryan boy
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Why is your only solution to go back in time for a girl who doesn’t love you?”
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Jesus thats foul bro
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“If you really believe this is what you want, then you’re lying to yourself.” “I’m not lying to myself,” Jacks snarled.
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Me when Im lying to myself
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Jacks was the Archer from The Ballad of the Archer and the Fox.
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She hadn’t wanted that to be Jacks’s story—she wanted to be his story.
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But it didn’t matter, because as soon as I kissed her, she died.”
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Well damn
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“Since then, every girl I’ve kissed has died, except for one. And you are not that girl.”
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Yea you heard him youre not him bro
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She would forget that he’d been Jacks of the Hollow, and the Archer, and, for the span of one night, hers.
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Trust me, Evangeline. If you care about Jacks, the best thing you can do for him is let him go.”
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“Thank you, Evangeline.” He took his dagger and sliced off a lock of her pink hair.
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Fuck was that for dude
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“Castor?”
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Call me detective atp
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She loved him. She just needed to tell him that.
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Yeah..!!!!!
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“The Handsome Stranger,” she gasped. Honora and Chaos both turned her way. Evangeline froze in the doorway.
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Great job girl
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Chaos’s smile turned to fangs, and then those fangs were on her neck, tearing into her throat.
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Kill EVERYBODY in that room bruh im tired of my girl getting disrespected
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He held her with the type of intensity that only happens when a person wants something that isn’t quite theirs.