Released (Highgate Preparatory Academy, #3)

by Rosa Lee

“I would do all this and more for you, Baby Girl. I’d burn the whole motherfucking world to the ground if you asked me

“I’ll bring you to the surface, my love. Or drown with you. But you are not alone. You don’t need to fight this by yourself.”

“You’re smart, beautiful, funny, and a wonderful person who isn’t afraid to take on four broken boys and make them into men.”

“That’s because you are a warrior queen, made to shed the blood of our enemies,” he tells me, a fierce pride in his tone as one hand comes up to stroke down the side of my face. “And you are perfect, Lilly Vanderbilt. Just right for us.” A shiver runs down my spine at his words, my inner demon preening at his praise and acceptance. After all, what better way to defeat the monsters that plague us than by becoming monstrous ourselves?

We have been released from our shackles and bound ourselves together, our hearts captured in a love so strong that it can never be broken.