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689 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 2, 2024
“I’m fully fucking honest when I say no one has ever frightened me as much as you do. I’ve never had this much to lose before.”
“I don’t have the faintest idea of where I want to end up in life. Yes, in the past, I spent most of my days being violently unhappy, and yes, I have wondered at times if it was even worth going on. But I’m happier now than I’ve ever been, do you understand? Every morning that I wake up with you in my arms, you change the world all over again, and I want more of that – more of everything you make me see and feel. So I’m not going anywhere – not as long as you’re with me.”
“I don’t feel like a villain,” I blubbered. “I just feel like a failure.”
“Oh, for fuck’s sake.” His lips brushed the crown of my head, tender and chastising at once. “Emeline Thenessa, love of my life, you’re farther from a failure than anyone I’ve ever met in this world. Don’t try to argue. It will win you nothing but more declarations of my heartfelt admiration, and they will be elaborate.”
“Look, suppose you ever change your mind about this, or that you ever end up feeling unsure of unsafe around him--”
I stiffened. “Agenor.”
“Yes, yes,” he impatiently cut in, waving my interruption aside, “you love him and he’s perfect and you’re going to make him a flock of tiny demon babies – it’s all good, Em.”