Lucie V.

“Anything else you want to confess?”
That gets under his skin. The silver in his eyes seems to sharpen, and he takes a step forward, pressing his body against mine so that I have to move back.
“The complete truth, McKenzie, is I’d do anything for you, but you ask for nothing. You won’t confide in me. You won’t rely on me. You’re so preoccupied trying to decide if you can trust your feelings that you won’t consider giving in to them.”


“If I could undo my past for you, McKenzie, I would. But I don’t have that power. No fae does.”

“How can you be so sure of the way you feel about me?”
“You’re human,” Aren says. “You’re the weakest person I know.”
The warm, fluttery sensations in my stomach disappear. “Geez, thanks.”
He laughs and takes my hands in his before I turn away. “And that makes you the strongest. The most courageous. When I found you on your campus, you fought me. You didn’t give in even though you knew you were outmatched. I was halfway in love with you before we reached Germany.”