" Oh,” he said with resigned defeat. “Would you rather…have someone else? Please don’t say Blake. He’ll be impossible—”

“No, it’s—”

Ayden slapped his forehead. “Matthias.”

I choked. He raked his fingers through his hair and nodded. “Girls always go for the dark brooding one with the tortured past. Should’ve seen that coming "

― A. Kirk , Dark Demon Knights (Divinicus Nex Chronicles, #4)