My eyes find Elena’s, wide and curious as she stares at me.
I can only hope she lets it stay that way. My history with Carmen Ricci will forever live in the grave she tossed it into, and I’ll live on regretting that it ever happened in the first place.īut like all deaths, the death of a relationship is permanent. I glance at the bra-pink, matching those heels I’d kill to have wrapped around my waist right now-visible through the lace top of her dress, and make an unintelligible sound with my mouth, trying to downplay exactly how much I disdain her mother.Īt this point, too much has happened between us for me to ever be able to break that part of my past to her. “Ariana says Mamá is still hell-bent on having me come home,” Elena says after a long stretch of silence, shifting in her seat. They’re spoon-fed lies, and because they’re typically too stupid to think for themselves, no one ever questions why their soup tastes like poison. When presented with the bones of a monster, the general public will believe the story they’re told without digging any further. Nor would it matter that I was trying to protect her and extract myself from this world when I did it. For some reason, she’s the only one who doesn’t hold any of that against me.Īnd it wouldn’t matter to the outside world that I murdered an abusive prick who probably would’ve tried to kill her once their marriage was final, especially after he found out she wasn’t a virgin. Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.85in - 1.Overseas Student Health Cover (OSHC): Health Coverage for International Students in Australiaįor her to turn to the cameramen and feed into the story, tell them I not only kidnapped her, but forced her to marry me and murdered her ex-fiancé.Īll true, technically, but still.It's the first book in the Monsters & Muses series, and while it is a standalone, it contains side plots and themes that are not immediately resolved. *Promises and Pomegranates is a full-length, standalone, dark contemporary romance based loosely on the framework/characters from the Hades and Persephone myth. Shattered her virtue and devoured her soul like a succulent pomegranate.Įmbedded my evil as deep as I could possibly get and tried to set her free. Goddess of springtime, lover of poetry, angel of my nightmares. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises.
Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares.
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