Unmask

<p class=ql-align-center><em>Some hearts are too dangerous to heal. Some boys are too beautiful to trust. And some revenge is worth dying for.</em></p><p></p><p><strong>KAYLOR</strong></p><p><em>Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.</em></p><p>They broke me once. I won't let them break me twice.</p><p>Raine. Kreed. Maddox. Mason.</p><p>They weren't just the kings of Elmwood Public. They were the devils who taught me that love and destruction wear the same beautiful face. I thought escaping their gilded cage meant freedom. I thought the nightmares would end that the scars would fade that I could forget the taste of their betrayal on my lips.</p><p>I was wrong.</p><p>Because the monsters hunting me now make the Corvo boys look like saints. And the only way to survive the darkness closing in? I have to let the four devils who destroyed me back into my life again. Not that they gave me much of a choice.</p><p>But I'm not that broken girl anymore and I'm done playing nice.</p><p></p><p><strong>KREED</strong></p><p>I let her walk away. I told myself she was safer without me that she belonged with the Vipers. That was my first mistake. My second? Thinking I could forget her.</p><p>I wasn't supposed to fall for her.</p><p>But when Kaylor looked at me with those sad eyes she made me believe I could be more than the monster everyone expected; she became my obsession. My salvation. My destruction.</p><p>I'd battled monsters before on the field in the ring in the streets that bled Elmwood dry. The kind that came with brass knuckles and back-alley deals. The kind that didn't flinch at the sight of blood especially not mine but Kaylor Steele wasn't a battlefield I could blitz through with fists or threats. She was all sharp edges and deep scars. And the fight for her? It wasn't about power or pride.</p><p>It was about survival and I had no intention of losing. Not her.</p><p>Never again.</p>