Cassie Bendix > Recent Status Updates

Scarlett coming into her power…smh…This girl is going to topple the whole kingdom.

And I’m enjoying the addition of Rosalind…oh where will this relationship go? Loyalty, deceit, or something in between…

“There is no deserve when it comes to love. There are no conditions or stipulations. You just love.”

Ugh, Scarlett’s last chapter had me curling in on myself in despair but then Snow swoops in and guts me with the sweetest lines..

“You still deserve to be here with us, alive and happy and loved. So much has changed, but your worth has not. You mean something to people, and you add something remarkable to the world.”

Oh God I saw it coming from a mile away but it’s still gutting me! WHAT NOW?!?

“Scarlett, you are the only thing that feels different in a world that never changes.” 🫠🫠🫠

SCARLETT! Not Reggie! He’s gonna kill the guy!

Can’t put this damn book down! Argh! It’s so addicting!!

Ugh, Snow is such a good friend…

“You deserve so much more than life has handed you, Scarlett. Don’t accept half-love that you’ve grown accustomed to. Only accept the full, staggering devotion that you deserve. It’s what we all deserve. To feel wholeheartedly chosen, desired, secure, and nurtured. Anything less is theft.”

“One of the best poets to ever live, a witch who spoke of soulmates and divinity, juxtaposed with violence, tragedy, and the grit of existence. Love as inseparable from pain. No greatness achieved without sacrifice.”

Sums up Rune & Scarlett perfectly:

“The whiplash of his cruelty and his softness had me disoriented. I craved his praise just as much as I aimed to provoke his darkness. It was demented, these opposing drives to please him, test him, resist him, and submit to him.”

Scarlett - what are you?!? I’m chomping at the bit for this reveal!! Can sense magick and has siren/succubus skills…

Oh my…that escalated quickly 🪭🪭🪭

Rune…the mouth on this guy 🪭🪭🪭

…The parts that you hide, the parts that you hate, the parts that you’re ashamed of, the parts that you flaunt and wield as weapons.”

**GULP**

“I will ruin all others for you, Scarlett, anything else but us will only feel empty, meaningless, soulless. I will be the only thing you can see, the only being worthy of touching you, of seeing all of you. That is what I will demand of you, and what you will eventually give freely. All of you...

Ohhhhh Rune & Scarlett finally meet…say hello to stalker boy…😏🫠

“Stubborn, obstinate, beautiful woman.”

“Arrogant, cruel, annoyingly handsome god.”

Ada girl…😲

“Her breath for mine. Or I swear I’ll not just be a speck on your memory, but a lesson on what those strange creatures called women are capable of once they have nothing left to lose.”

Enosh doting on Ada makes me weak in the knees. My heart wants to go galloping out of my chest.
💓💓💓

A question followed by the answer: Yes. “No.” ~ this always gets a chuckle out of me.

ENOSH! YOU’RE KILLING ME!

“To yield to a cruel god who promised me everything I’d ever wanted and surrender myself to his delicious corruption.”

Enoch - “child or no, you are precious beyond all, and you have my devotion for eternity.”

Enoch - you are a fucking walking talking contradiction- the most horrible marshmallow of a man ever written…and I’m eating it up.

“Unwoman” - steals my breath every time…😮‍💨

Liv Zander does it again - her books are so dark, you’re left questioning your sanity/character…is something wrong with me for liking this?? And yet I’m devouring these stories and characters. Deep & Dark & Flawed. I am eating this shit up.

This makes 3 for 3 - loving every series she’s written.

“I used to fear this. An unending succession of losses. An infinite lineage of goodbyes. Every hello carries it’s goodbye folded inside it, like a letter you know you’ll have to open someday.
But hello comes first.
An endless succession of life, of love.
Of now.”

“Like coming home.”

“I’ll always be your home.”

😭😭😭 and to think I thought I was going to get out of this unscathed by tears.

Seriously…how am I supposed to live life right now. Putting this down is impossible

Chapter 20 - FUCKING HELL

“You can’t have love without embracing grief. Pain is the price we pay for participating in life. And if you’re not willing to pay for that, then maybe…then maybe you’re a corpse after all. Existing somehow, yes. But not living.”

Ok, that had me gasping.