The Gargoyle's Captive (A Deal With a Demon, #3)

by Katee Robert

“You’ve made a mistake, and now I’m going to make you choke on it.”

The pain people cause by being horrible and selfish and monstrous doesn’t magically disappear with them.”

I think I want kids, but I’m so afraid some switch inside me will flip and I’ll turn into my parents. They loved me, but they hurt me and told me it would make me stronger.”

“I’m sorry.” I smile even though my eyes are burning. “We keep saying that to each other, over and over, for our pains that words won’t fix.” “Sometimes there’s nothing else to say.”

Misery is a cloak I wear wrapped around every inch of my skin.

My mother was a monster, and what she did was unforgivable. But . . . she loved me. No matter what else is true, that is.

I would’ve thought that by now my capacity for feeling surprise would be exhausted. And yet here I am, being offered therapy by a demon.