Liars Like Us - Book 1: Legacy of Lies
My equal.
She’d expected comfort. Or pity. Or silence. But not that. Never that.
Her throat ached. The fire she’d thought extinguished stirred faintly, fragile beneath the ash. She turned her hand in his, their fingers locking, steady now instead of trembling.
“I don’t know if I can live with it,” she whispered. “With his blood on my hands.”
“You don’t live with it,” Dante said, his voice low, his thumb brushing over her knuckles again. “You carry it. And you use it. That’s what we do.”