Cruel Angel (Deluxe Edition) (Gilded Monsters, 4)

Cruel Angel (Deluxe Edition) (Gilded Monsters, 4)There was a time I felt lost and aloneuntil I met them, and together our souls took flight: My gentle Raoul and our deadly Angel of Music. Haunted by the violent death of her parents, Christine Daa longs to find solace in music, but debilitating stage fright keeps her firmly in the shadows. All she can hope for is a few stolen moments singing to herself in the mournful silence of the backstage stairwelluntil one night, the shadows sing back. In

he hopes she can deliver

give that hero in training a heroine―if Vanessa will play the part in a pretend romance guaranteed to make the city swoon

And then he opened his mouth

That's what I do

Though they both know it will ruin their reputations and likely also cost them their jobs if anyone finds out they are romantically involved

and pretending they're head-over-heels in love…and engaged

is glowering at her in a shaken-to-the core way that suggests he sees her as competition

He's a man who is obsessed with getting what he wants-and I'm starting to think what he wants is me

But when an unanticipated blunder threatens her teaching job

He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra

Reapers can kill with a single touch

because I don’t particularly care much for her either