" Do you want to be the favourite, Roxanya?” Lionel purred as he released Clara’s hand and took a step towards me.
The shadows shifted within me, aching to feel that with an urgency I couldn’t comprehend. “Yes,” I breathed, taking a seat on the chair and waiting as he strapped me in.
“Then tell me who you love.” He walked away from me as I frowned at the question, the shadows wild and seething beneath my skin.
I closed my eyes as I tried to answer, searching the deep chasm of nothing within me until I caught a glimmer of something which I’d lost.
“A girl with blue hair,” I breathed as the echoes of memories stirred within my heart. “And a man with a dark soul. "
― Caroline Peckham , Cursed Fates (Zodiac Academy, #5)