Mortal Heart (His Fair Assassin Trilogy)

“I would, for I will no longer sit and wait patiently for my happiness to grow like some budding fruit on the limbs of a tree, but will mold it and shape it with my own hands.”

Impossible things do happen. But only if we make them.

“I have always been willful and stubborn. It is one of my greatest sins.”
“But is it a sin? If it allows you to survive? Endure? Prevail?”

“Be safe, my love,” a voice murmurs. Then I feel the press of cool lips upon my eyelids.