What Lurks Between the Fates (Of Flesh & Bone, #3)

by Harper L. Woods

“This is nothing compared to the misery I would endure if it meant you would never know pain again, min asteren,”

“I don't know how I will ever recover from such a grave insult to my character. That one stung right in the place where I do not care.”

She wanted to know if I saw myself as the hero of my story, but I didn't. I only saw myself as the villain of hers.

I didn't care if Estrella was more powerful. I didn't care if she ruled over me, and I was the figurehead at her side. All I wanted was to stand beside her in all her glory. All I wanted was to love her for eternity.

“If you suffer, I suffer too. If you bleed, I bleed as well. If you die, then I will follow,” I murmured, dropping my forehead to hers.

“Sometimes, it is far easier to see the good in others than it is to see it in ourselves. Sometimes, the hardest thing to do is understand that while we are not perfect, the way we defend ourselves is not an indication of our character but purely of our will to live so that we might do the right thing when given the freedom to do so.”

“You are nothing to him, whereas I am his entire world. Dressed up pig or not.”

“I would take the time to warn you about picking fights with someone’s mate next time,”

This was the mate I’d waited centuries for. A queen of death and carnage.

“And one of these days, I'll cut off your cock and feed it to you, Malachi. I have no interest in your screams,” I said, tilting my head to stare up at him through my lashes as I smiled sweetly. “Only your silence.”

“You are more beautiful than all the stars in the sky, min asteren,”

“She is everything you will never be,” I said, keeping all harshness out of my words. I didn’t want them to be an insult, only the truth. “She is life itself.”

“By the end of the night, you’ll be so full of cum that it drips down your thighs,”

“I’m going to make a fucking mess of you. So before you get my cock, you’re going to come on my fingers, and then you’re going to ride my tongue.”

“Show me. I want to see my cum on your pretty tongue.”

“You’re as much a monster as me,” she mumbled, the words barely audible. “For him, I will be.”