A Curse for True Love (Once Upon a Broken Heart, #3)

by Stephanie Garber

“My name is Apollo Acadian.”

BOOOOO THIS GUY STINKS!!!

“Your memories were stolen by someone who’s been trying to tear us apart.” Something flickered in Apollo’s brown eyes, although if it was anger or pain, she couldn’t tell.

side eye …

Evangeline wished she could remember him.

Girl you and I both

But the harder she tried, the worse she felt. Her head hurt and her chest felt hollowed out, as if she’d lost more than just her memories.

If evajacks isn't engame, i might do something drastic

For a second the agony was so deep and so brutal, she clutched her heart, half expecting to find a jagged hole. But there was no wound. Her heart was still there; she could feel it beating. Yet for a devastating moment, Evangeline imagined that it shouldn’t have been, that her heart was supposed to be as broken as she felt.

Where's jacks? I miss our pookie :(

She had something important to tell someone. Evangeline couldn’t remember what it was, but she felt as if her entire world depended on this one thing she needed to share. Just thinking about it made her blood rush.

AHHHHHHHHH

She tried to remember what this something was that she needed to say and who it was she needed to tell—could it be this Apollo person?

ew no

Apollo

He's IRKING me, i miss jacks

Apollo’s chest was flawless, smooth and carved in muscles, and over his heart was a vibrant tattoo of two swords in the shape of a heart with a name in the center: Evangeline.

i'm gonna vomit

“These marks are the price I paid to return!” he cried. “When I say I went through hell, I mean it. But I had to come back. I had to right the wrongs done in my absence. I know many believe that it was my brother, Tiberius, who killed me, but it was not.”

He's so corny like i'm throwing tomatoes rn

“I was poisoned by a man I thought to be a friend,” Apollo roared. “Lord Jacks is the man who killed me. Then he stole the memories of my bride, Evangeline. I will not rest until Jacks is found and he pays for his crimes with his life!”

again SIDE EYE…

He did have her name tattooed over his heart.

This is gonna be really embarrassing for him when she ends up with jacks, i'm so ready to giggle

But Apollo would make her happy. He would make her a queen who would be loved and adored. He would more than make up for what he’d done to her in the past, as long as she never found out.

GET A JOB!! STAY AWAY FROM HER!!!

It was shortly after this, when Evangeline’s arms were being measured for gloves, that she noticed the scar. It was on the underside of her right wrist, thin and white, shaped like a broken heart. And it had definitely not been there before.

YESSSSS AHHHHHH

LORD JACKS WANTED DEAD or ALIVE

FREE MY POOKIE!!!!

Evangeline read it aloud. “The Greatest Love Story Ever Told: The True and Unabridged History of Evangeline Fox and the Prince of Hearts.”

AHHHHH OH EM GEE IM GONNA WIN EVA JACKS ENDGAME IS COMING HOME!!!!!

“Evangeline!” someone cried. The voice sounded male and unfamiliar. “Evangeline!”

JACKS POOKIE BEAR IS THAT YOU???

He was beautiful. Inhuman. A warrior angel with blue eyes and golden hair and a face that made Evangeline think that writing poetry should be her new hobby.

MY POOKIE BEAR IS BACK!!

“If someone labeled a bottle poison, you would drink it. You take warnings as invitations. You can’t seem to stay away from all the things that will hurt you.”

Well, i mean he does have a point she did do that once…

There was blood on his hands, and his eyes were shot through with it as well. Yet she’d never wanted anyone more.

real she's just like me

She must have lost her mind sometime during the night because she wanted him to move closer. She wanted his hands on her. She wanted him holding her, restraining her, teaching her to fight. She didn’t care, as long as they were touching.

again real

She didn’t know if he was trying not to frighten her away, or if he was maybe frightened. He seemed uncharacteristically nervous as he reached toward her cheek. He slowly took an errant pink strand of hair between his fingers and tucked it behind her ear. He was so careful, his fingers didn’t even brush her skin, but he looked as if he wanted to.

AHHHHH OH EM GEE

She’d felt butterflies when she’d kissed Apollo, but Evangeline had a feeling that kissing Archer would be earth-shattering.

IT WILL BE I PROMISE JUST DO IT

Jacks had seen enough.

HE WAS WATCHING????

If he stayed on the balcony any longer, if he kept watching, he’d kill Apollo, or at least make it impossible for him to touch Evangeline ever again.

Evangeline was safe. That was what mattered.

SHE ISN'T COME BACK POOKIE!!!

If Jacks stayed, if he stormed in the room and used his powers to make Apollo watch as Jacks told Evangeline that she wasn’t nothing to him. That she was everything. That he’d turned back time to keep her alive, and he would make the same choice again. If Jacks made her remember that he was the one she should have wanted to kiss.

OH EM GEE AHHHHH

If Evangeline was going to have any future, Jacks could not be a part of it.

NOOOOOO I'M GOING THROUGH A ROLLERCOASTER OF EMOTIONS RIGHT NOW

But Jacks wasn’t feeling much these days unless the feelings involved Evangeline,

He wore a devil-may-care grin and tossed an apple in one hand, looking nothing like a murderer—and everything like what Evangeline secretly wanted.

Apollo wasn’t a murderer—he didn’t kill unless it was absolutely necessary.

I mean at this point, all of this mans chapters start with this sentence and he keeps doing it. Please name one time it was "necessary"

But Apollo needed answers, not more bloodshed.

really YOU'RE not going to resort to bloodshed? I guess there really is a first time for everything.

Apollo interrupted. “Regardless of what she wants.”

ooooooo i REALLY hate this man

“Then why don’t you get the hell away from her,” growled Archer. Evangeline hadn’t heard him approach. She just turned and suddenly Archer—Jacks—was there.

YESSSSSSS

“I don’t want you near her. Ever.” Jacks

I love when men

“I didn’t murder anyone last night.” “You killed someone in front of me!” “That wasn’t murder. He was trying to kill you.”

“Yes, I am a murderer. I enjoy hurting people. I like blood. I like pain. I am a monster, but whether you remember it or not, I’m your monster, Evangeline.”

OH EM GEE

She wanted him.

REAL

“So, this is your best day?” Evangeline asked.

THEY’RE THE CUTEST THING EVER OH EM GEE

Ye Olde Brick Inn at the End of the Forest: for Wayward Travelers and Adventurers. Beneath this sign was another swaying sign that contained the word: Vacancy. And then hooked beneath that was an even smaller sign that read: One Bed.

As Taylor Swift says "I think I've seen this film before" except i WILL like the ending

“I’ve been tempted on more than one occasion…” His eyes darkened as they lowered to her lips and stayed there.

AHHHHHHHH

I can’t stay with you. You and I aren’t meant to be.

YES YOU ARE POOKIES

“This is a very bad idea,” Jacks murmured. “I would have thought you liked bad ideas.” “Only when they’re mine.”

SCREAMING

He stood very still as her fingers reached for the bottom button and carefully slid it through the hole. For a second, there was no rain, there was no breathing. There was just the two of them.

“My turn,” he said hoarsely.

GIGGLING, WIGGLING, AND KICKING MY FEET RIGHT NOW!!!!

She wanted to remember! And at long last … she did. She remembered.

YESSSSSSSSSSS!!!

and she’d finally admitted to herself that she was hopelessly in love with him.

She’d been in love with him for quite some time.

But Evangeline had also never told him she’d loved him. He’d been scared, but she had been, too. She had said that she wished their story could have had a different ending, but she should have told him how she loved him. Love was the world’s most powerful magic.

And she had to tell him that she loved him. When she looked at Jacks’s actions, most of them seemed to say he loved her, too.