More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Bargainer, I would like to make a deal.”
I prey on bad men. This is my vendetta. My addiction.
“Tell me, cherub, would you like to visit my kingdom one day?” he asks, his voice soft like velvet. Is this a trick question? I feel as though I’m about to walk into a trap. “You’d take me?” I ask. I try not to sound too excited, or frightened for that matter. Everything I’ve learned about the Otherworld terrifies me. But the idea of the King of the Night giving me a guided tour of his realm is impossibly appealing. “Oh, I’ll take you,” he promises, a wicked glint in his eyes. “One day, I won’t give you a choice.”
“How did you feel, leaving me?” I ask. He holds my gaze. “Like my soul was ripped in two.” I still. Is he serious? I feel like my world’s being overturned. “And the seven years that followed?” I breathe. He stares at me, unwavering. “A nightmare.”
“That I’m in love with you? That I have been since you were that obstinate teen with way too much courage? That you’re my soul mate and I’m yours? Gods save me, yes, I am.”
“But you left,” I say softly. He stays rigidly in place. “I did,” he says, his eyes sad. “But I never meant to stay away.”
“Every day after your last wish, I worked myself raw trying to get close to you,” Des says. “And every day, I was stopped by my very own magic, which had turned on me.”
The siren within me is whispering, the worlds curling themselves around me, I am powerful. I am vengeance. I am unleashed.
“Cherub, people like us are not victims. We’re someone’s nightmare.”
My eyes move to Des. “Teach me again how to be someone’s nightmare.” I need to feel dangerous, powerful, traits I lost somewhere along the way. A hint of his wicked smile appears, and cloaked in his shadows, it’s menacing. “With pleasure, mate.”
