the shadows between us book 2 release date

Laughter fills the room, and Myron flinches at it. The ring is by far the most expensive trinket he’s ever given me. It winks in the morning light as I tilt my hand from side to side. It’s beautiful, cut in an egg shape and buried in gold. To the hand holding the sheets in place and the extra weight I now feel there. He looks up at me, before his eyes flit meaningfully to my chest once more. Myron stares at my chest, and I roll my eyes. With a hand, I keep the sheets held up over my chest as I rise to a sitting position.

The scent of sandalwood and sweat wafts over me. Floppy curls sprawl across his forehead, and he flicks back his head to clear his vision. It’s a wonder he fits in my bed, he’s so tall. My bedsheets cover him from the waist down. “Because you’re beautiful.” Myron lies on his side, his head propped up on a closed fist. “Devils, Myron, why are you staring at me?” I ask. I lift my arms into the air, stretching like a cat, before rolling over in bed.Ī pair of brown eyes is only inches from my own. That knowledge settles within me now just as it did three years ago. I also remember what finally helped my head catch up with my pounding heart: the last word out of Hektor’s lips. I barely remembered grabbing the knife Father had given to me for my fifteenth birthday, three months previous, with its jeweled handle and silver sheen, but I do remember that Hektor’s blood matched the inlaid rubies. When I sank my knife into his chest, words came spilling out of him almost as fast as the blood.

At the time, all I could think of was the fact that I’d given everything to Hektor: my first kiss, my love, my body.Īnd when I told him I loved him, all he had to say was “Thanks, but I think it’s time we moved on.” My dream was of him, of the day he told me it had been fun but he was done.

I buried Hektor Galanis in a hole so deep, even the devils of the earth couldn’t reach him. They’ve never found the body of the first and only boy who broke my heart.

The shadows between us book 2 release date