Scarlett woke in Madrid with every truth she had been taught collapsing around her. The holy had exploited her, her father had betrayed her, and the man everyone would call a monster had become the only one who never hid what he was.
How could there be a God?
I wanted to believe. I needed to believe. But when the holy were the abusers, when the righteous sold their children, when the system protected predators—what kind of God allowed that?
The devil outside that door had never lied to me.
He was the type of man I should fear, should hate—but I couldn’t.
He never pretended to be anything he wasn’t.
~Scarlett Hayes, Eyes of the Unholy
About this Scarlett Hayes quote
This Scarlett Hayes quote comes from Eyes of the Unholy by Evie James, the second book in the Sin Syndicate series. After waking in Madrid and confronting the full betrayal of her father, the church, and every institution that claimed righteousness, Scarlett begins to understand why Lucian Byrne feels safer than the world that called itself holy. Their story blends enemies to lovers tension, forced proximity, vigilante justice, religious trauma, dangerous protection, and the morally gray Irish mafia enforcer who never pretends to be a saint.
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