What Came Back With Him
He left me once. I survived. Now he's back — and he brought a woman who used to own his heart. They told me to stay away from Jace. The boy....
He left me once. I survived. Now he's back — and he brought a woman who used to own his heart. They told me to stay away from Jace. The boy with the cold skin, the eyes that never quite settled, the silence he wore like armor. I didn't listen. I loved him anyway. Then one night he walked out of my kitchen without a word, and I spent six months learning how to breathe around the hole he left. Now he's standing at the edge of the quarry like nothing happened. I should hate him. I don't. That's the problem. When the ground opens beneath us, Jace doesn't let me fall — he pulls me down with him, into a world I never knew he belonged to. A world with a woman named Lira in it. Beautiful. Certain. Owed something I didn't know she was owed. "I'm the one he was supposed to choose," she tells me, like it's a fact I should already know. Jace doesn't deny it. Every day since he came back, I've watched him choose me anyway — in the way he looks at me, the way his hand finds mine before he knows he's reaching, the way he says my name like it costs him something to say it. Lira wants him back. Something ancient in the dark beneath us grows stronger every time he chooses me over her. And Jace would rather destroy himself than tell me the truth about what that means. He left me once to protect me. I'm not letting him do it again. *A forbidden second-chance romance with a jealous rival, a boy who left to save the girl he loved, and a darkness underground that gets stronger with every kiss.*