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“I want to call you mine”

His eyes are mesmerizing, like melted steel, morning fog. They cut through me as though he is unafraid to see every part of me. His gaze feels right, familiar. And when his eyes lock with mine, I wonder why I ever bother looking at anyone else

“And I’ll save your life again and again, aimlessly hoping you’ll allow me to stay in it.”

I’d never thought about what my favorite color was before. It never seemed important.
Not until I looked into a pair of ocean blue eyes and realized that perhaps drowning was a beautiful thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of fiery blue eyes and realized that perhaps burning was a painless thing.
Not until I looked into a pair of sky blue eyes and realized that perhaps falling was a peaceful thing.

She’s so stunning, yet so stubbornly oblivious to how the sunset behind dulls in comparison to the vibrance that is her.

If I am to be her enemy, I want it to be because she loathes herself for wanting me.

She’s a flame, and I’m going to get burned. She’s an ocean and I’m going to drown.

We fit together perfectly, pieces of a puzzle snapping into place. I shouldn’t let myself relax into his touch. Shouldn’t let the tension ease from my body when he holds me. But I can do nothing to stop it. Utterly and completely powerless.

She is the embodiment of a bad decision. The twin of danger and desire. The fine line between deadly and divine.
And I can feel myself drowning.

THIS. BOOK. OMG.

I’m already so obsessed. I’m getting Hunger Games vibes obviously from the Purging Trial and the interviews/spoiling the contestants before. And I’m also getting The Selection vibes from the interviews and the setting (the rooms, castle, the dinners, the king and queen).

This is literally the third book in the series where someone is at Millie’s house and runs away. Could she not come up with anything else 🙄

It was Raellen that told Millie about the drugs, not Ruth. But now I’m thinking someone “gifted” the brownies to Ben to knock him out, but that doesn’t explain the bike left at the lumberyard. The Mennonite woman is also pretty suspicious, but I don’t know how she was involved.

I just got to the part where Ruth said Ben didn’t wake up because he was on drugs so I’m thinking someone at the lumberyard drugged him, killed him, drove his body to the flea market, and started the fire. This would explain the drugs and the bike still being at the lumberyard.

The captain hasn’t been talked about much but I could see it being him. Houdini seemed like a suspect until his water trick thing. I absolutely hate Mesostopheles. I feel so bad for Thomas too he’s being treated so badly by Audrey Rose and it’s making me so mad. I still don’t have any idea who it is. I hope it’s mesostopheles.