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

by Jess Wisecup

“You don’t have any idea how much I’ve fucking needed your soft.”

I wanted to give that to him—my gentle, my tender.

and wrath inside me, and hiding behind

“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.”

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.”

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 know it, I know it, our friends know it. Mairin just met me, and even she’s said as much!”

The type of love which burns bright and quick but no less devastating. But we’d never stopped burning.

We were fire and cinder and ash, a flame once lit that could light the world. A glimmer of ember on a breeze, a spark of passion ignited.

“But I love you too. Until we are just whispers on the wind.”