Silver Under Nightfall (Reaper, #1)

by Rin Chupeco

Mutually beneficial parasites. What a romantic notion.

“Why do you keep turning someone else’s compassion into a favor that you owe, instead of accepting that you are worthy of it?”

He was too soft, like his father had said. Must have gotten it from his mother. And then he wondered if his mother had only been soft because she’d loved his father. Like kindness had ever been a sin.

You’re too kind for this. You’ll always leave pieces of your heart behind, whether you want to or not. “I know, Elke,” Remy sighed quietly to his best friend, now so far away because of him. “I know.”