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And as I dreamed, his face changed into a mask, a killer, my ending.
Elaina

But he was still too nice, too easy. It was like, once he came back, everything was rainbows and butterflies, and I didn't want that. Not anymore.

Elaina about Michael

"You're mine, you know that, right?"
“Only if you're mine too."
He hauled me to him and kissed the ever loving hell out of me.

Elaina and Michael

He leaned up and the kiss he gave me was sinful. He slipped his tongue into my mouth and tore my soul out with it.

Elaina- I wondered if danger was just what I was looking for. And for the first time in months, a genuine smile crossed my lips, excitement bubbling to the surface.

"Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! This is like a masquerade from the movies! I can't believe you did this!"
I nudged her, excitement spilling over in both of us. "We did this. You're just as much a part of this as I was."
“True." She laughed, impishly. "Now, we just have to find both of us a hunky masked man to unravel us in one of the rooms upstairs!"

Gemma & Elaina

He left not long after the high faded, disappearing like a ghost at dawn. It was the best fucking way I'd ever woken up, and the worst kind of silence to follow. I wasn't sure when, or if, I'd see him again. That was definitely the problem because I was starting to think I wanted to.

Elaina about the Masked Man

We crashed together, lips, teeth, tongue. Distracting her, I brought my hands over her head and slowly untied the ropes. They were slowly unraveling when feet kicked me back on my ass and suddenly a vicious little minx was in my lap, dagger held between her tied hands.

Elaina with the Masked Man

She was a siren, her dark side calling to mine in the most chaotic symphony that somehow worked. She leaped from near-death to my total ruin.

Masked Man looks at Elaina

Elaina- Now, here I was, back with Gemma, a bloody painting of a dead crow somewhere in the gallery and a masked asshole I needed to find and maim.