Eclipse of the Crown (Villains & Virtues, #3)

by A.K. Caggiano

“Tomorrow I will find a necromancer, I will bring that bastard back, and I will torture him so meticulously that he will beg his gods to return him to the Abyss.”

“You’re a fool,” snorted Xander, righting himself and brushing away fallen parchment. “The only thing you could do with that girl is corrupt her.” “I’m not corrupting her,” he protested, though his mind pinged on the word. Is that what he’d been doing to Amma? Between the stealing and the murder and the…touching? “But you are. And sure, she might seem willing now, and she might fall for your broodiness and the way you try to possess her, but it won’t last. Not when she finds out what you really are.” Damien swallowed, Xander’s voice like blades sinking into his skin. He still wanted him to shut up, but he didn’t quite have the words to lash out this time.