Pretty Monsters (Pretty Monsters Trilogy, #1)

by Kimberly Carrillo

The innocent don't belong here. This is where monsters dwell.

If I believed in angels, I'd think I was looking straight at one. She is everything good and pure that I stopped believing existed years ago. I want to break her, if for no other reason than because seeing her reminds me how far I've fallen.

My hand falls like I touched a flame. In a way I did. If anyone knows I touched the princess of the manor I might as well eat a bullet.

"We're wasting time. We don't think about tomorrow, remember?" I nod my head. Tomorrow is something I'd given up on before time had meaning to me. Tomorrow is for people who have hope; I barely have morals.

"You could never be invisible," I speak, turning to look out the window. "That's all I've ever been, Raven." I see you, I think to myself. I don't think he'd appreciate hearing it.

"Why you went out and screwed a stranger. You need to push me away, because of who I am." "Don't flatter yourself. I fucked that girl last night because I wanted to get off. She was willing, and knew how to suck a dick. Even if you weren't daddy's little princess, I still wouldn't have chosen you because I don't break in virgins."

His need to protect me isn't because he thinks I'm weak, it's because I make him weak.

Emotions make you vulnerable, but I wouldn't say that my feelings for Raven make me weak. I'd burn down the world to protect her. If anything I'm more dangerous now than I ever have been, because now I have a reason to live.