Rogue Unbroken
-- EXCERPT: Alec lifted a hand to my face but lowered it again. “But then you came back to me. You fell for me again. I saw it. If you say you’re done with me, then why can’t you just do the honorable thing and stop loving me?” Alec looked down at the floor and he never looked so sheepish and small. A trick. It had to be a trick. But he was so small and broken and careening in his own mind. I knew what that felt like, all too well. “I want to.” I leaned back on the shelves again. “You’re despicable and psychotic. You hurt the people I care about. You tortured me, manipulated me—” “I don’t know.” “That’s not an answer. Why?” Alec moved closer to my face. “Because you won’t let me.” “Ha.” Alec grinned before his eyes turned dark again. “I wish I had that much control over your decisions. Try again.” I shoved him away. “I don’t know, Alec.” “Yes, you do,” he came right back. “Think, Mara.” “Because you’re home to me!” His mouth fell open and the pain created lines around his eyes. I just stared at him for a moment. I saw all the same years of complications that I felt in mine. We weren’t just similar. He and I were mirror images of each other. “No matter what you do, no matter where I go. When I think back on my life, you are all I can see for centuries,” I said. “I get it.” Alec backed off. I caught his arm. “You don’t. You’re a terrible person. You’re the nightmare that just won’t go away.” I looked at the floor. “But you’re also a huge part of my life, whether I hate you or not.”
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