"Çok güzel, Sloane," dedim.
"Teşekkür ederim," diye yanıtladı sıcacık bir ses tonuyla ama bana dönmedi. Dönseydi kanvasa değil de ona baktığımı görürdü.
“You can’t change my past. You can’t change who I am.”
“No,” I said with a shrug, my finger trailing down her throat. She wasn’t breathing, and I, too, held my breath at the feel of her soft skin. “But you can. I can only force people to treat you as you want to be treated.”
“Your pride will be your downfall,” I said.
“And your fury will be yours.”
“Then we’ll fall together. Isn’t that the beginning of every tragic love story?”
“We won’t have a love story. Not a tragic one, not a sad one, and definitely not a happy one. You can have my hatred,” Serafina said fiercely.
“I’ll take it,” I murmured. “Hatred is so much stronger than love.”