" It was obvious to me that all of this was Navan practicing. Practicing using his free will to go against his grain, defy his natural instincts. There was an undercurrent of roughness to his manner, but from what I could tell, he’d learned to control it. To become a master of his circumstances, rather than a victim of them. "

― Bella Forrest , Hotbloods (Hotbloods, #1)