Scarlett was surrounded by gunfire, betrayal, and the brutal truth that her own father had become a threat. But in the middle of the chaos, one certainty cut through the fear: Lucian could have used her like everyone else had, and instead, he protected her because losing her would destroy him.
If Lucian had wanted me dead, I’d be dead. If he’d wanted to hurt me, use me, trade me, ransom me—he’d have done it already. Instead, he handled me as though I were breakable. As though I mattered. As though losing me would cost him everything.
And the way he’d looked at me when he told me I was pretty, it hadn’t sounded like a line.
It had sounded as if I were the very air he needed to breathe.
~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 Lucian rushes Scarlett to a DarkMatter safe house and Andrew Hayes’s betrayal explodes into violence, Scarlett is forced to confront the difference between being controlled and being protected. Lucian may be dangerous, ruthless, and morally gray, but his care for her begins to feel terrifyingly real. Their story blends enemies to lovers tension, forced proximity, vigilante justice, dangerous protection, touch-her-and-die devotion, and the kind of impossible trust that forms in the middle of war.
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