Status Updates From Crown Me Yours (Heartstring...

Elara is a self righteous FMC. Her moral compass is questionable at best and yet blames everyone else about the situation at hand. 🙄

I was told to read the second one. I still think this is over hyped and I’m half way through it

“Why did you stay with Daron?”

His jaw works for a moment,
the shift of bone beneath skin visible in the half-light, as if he’s searching for a logic that fits the shape of a feeling he refuses to claim.

“I don’t know.
It means nothing.”

I flatten my palm against his chest, sensing the quickening of his heart.

And I’m not sure if he just lied to me again…
or if he lied to himself.

“Even if I mend it, little one, the wood is old.
It has cracks. One drop, and it’s broken forever.”

“I know,” she says simply.

“I still want you to try.”

Vale frowns.

“If you know it will end in pieces, then why does it
matter?”

“Because I want to play with it some more now.
Sister Merin always says… she says”—a dramatic punctuation with her little hands—

“now is all we’re ever given.”

“I cannot feel love.”

A profound, aching sadness washes over me, heavier than it should.

“What kind of existence is that?”
I ask softly.

“To live without love?”

Death looks at me for a long moment.
Then, his form begins to dissipate.

He melts into the night, but the grating rasp of his voice echoes
through the clearing one last time.

“A sane one.”