Trapped in Delgado’s auction and stripped of every illusion of safety, Lyla should have been praying for anyone but Nikolai Volkov. But when the monsters came out of the shadows, the dangerous man who haunted her dreams was the only one she wanted to find her first.
I shut my eyes, my mind drifting again to my Russian stalker.
The one whose voice played over and over again in my thoughts…my dreams. I couldn’t stop thinking about his hands. His mouth. His angst. The way he’d kissed me, like he hated himself for wanting me.
I couldn’t understand why he kept showing up out of nowhere.
But right now, I wanted that version of him—the one who’d chased me through that building not to hurt me but to get to me first, like he knew monsters lurked in the shadows.
Maybe I didn’t deserve to be saved. I’d been too impulsive. Too trusting.
But God help me—I wanted him to come.
~Lyla Oakley, Eyes on You
About this Lyla Oakley quote
This Lyla Oakley quote comes from Eyes on You by Evie James, the first book in the Sin Syndicate series. Taken by Delgado’s men and forced into a brutal auction at The Sacrifice, Lyla is terrified, exposed, and running out of hope. Yet her thoughts keep returning to Nikolai Volkov—the Russian stalker whose obsession has become tangled with protection. Their story blends dark mafia romance, forced proximity, stalker romance, vigilante justice, dangerous attraction, and the desperate need to be saved by the very man she should fear.
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