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.”

“Let’s try listening to instructions all over again: this time, when I give them to you, you’re going to follow them.”

“It’s like eating stale cereal. It seems fine on the outside, but once you bite into it, you have all the regrets.” That’s…an apt way of putting it.

“And what’s your innate nature?” I say, my words whisper soft. “To take what I want, when I want, and to apologize to no one for it.”

“What you did…” He searches my face. “No one will forget it. Not that woman you protected, not the room full of fairies, not the Flora Queen and her consort—and not me. Mara might wear a crown, but everyone in that room saw who the true queen was today.”