Between Wrath and Mercy (The Divine Between, #1)

by Jess Wisecup

I would belong to no one but myself.

“I love you, Emmeline. I have loved you from the start, and I will love you until we are both just a whisper on the wind. It’s your eyes I see when I close mine, your heart I want to hold, and I’d set this whole damn world on fire if you wanted to watch it burn.”

Love declarations hit differently when they’re in your name…

My jaw dropped, and my heart stopped as he slammed down on both of his knees in front of me, taking one of my hands in his. “Marry me, you beautiful, venomous fool.”

“Sometimes, I wonder if maybe my life would’ve been easier if I never met you, Em. But the fact is, I did. I met you, and my heart has beat for only you ever since. My heart is yours to break, borrow, and bruise. The only way this ends is death. There is no one else for either of us.

“You have held my heart in your hands since the moment I met you, Emmeline. Every beat and every skip you have possessed. Every thought and every dream, every secret and every fear has belonged to you. You ignited a flame in me which has burned and sputtered and raged. Ours is a fire that will never go out. Ours is a fire that will swallow us whole, and I’d rather burn with you than live in the dark.”