Some things are not meant to be known until they happen. You can’t change fate, you can only survive it.

I will be with you when you pass through the waters, and when you pass through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. You will not be scorched when you walk through the fire, and the flame will not burn you.

I missed him more than I breathed every day, but somehow, he was right. He was still here with me.

One could only speculate, but even I wasn’t past being surprised on occasion. Everybody had a secret.

This was a cruel world. A world where people would choose reputations over love. Dirty escapades over happiness. I never wanted to weave myself into that fabric of society again.

Time had a way of revealing the truth.

Unlike the men I targeted, he was a closed book. A locked diary, to be more accurate. And that lock had a trip wire on it that would explode if you dared poke at it.

For years, every hour had been grey. I’d lived under a cloud of perpetual rain until she came along, and now my life was filled with color. A storm of passionate red. She was changing the landscape of my life, and I didn’t like it.

Confronting our demons isn’t easy,” Lucian said tenderly. “But it is necessary.