A Strange Hymn (The Bargainer, #2)

by Laura Thalassa

“You were everything I never knew I wanted. You were chaos. You were desperation. You were the most mysterious secret I’d ever come across. Everything about you drew me in—your innocence, your vulnerability, hell, even your tragic life. You were the most captivating creature I’d ever met.”

“I would steal the stars from the sky for you,” he whispers into my ear. “Anything to hear you laugh like that.”

I am the darkness, his eyes seem to say, and you are my lovely nightmare. And no one will take this away from us.

Temper snorts. “Callie, we’ve been friends for nearly a decade. Stop beating off the bush—” I wince. “Around, Temper. Beating around the bush.”

“When I close my eyes, all I see is the shape of your face and the brightness of your smile. You are the stars in my dark sky, cherub.”