Nightshade: An Enemies to Lovers, Dark Academic Romance (Sorrowsong University Book 1)
Nightshade: Prologue

Annalise was mine. My sweet solace. My English rose. I loved her with a fire all-consuming, a burning from within.

She was mine, and always should’ve been mine.

My love for her was a disease, and disease knows no boundaries. It knows no laws and no repentance. It doesn’t care who belongs to who; it’ll sever branches from a family tree without thought.

And this disease, it crawled its way into my soul and sat there, rotting and festering in the cage that he built for it. That was, until it ate its way out through the bars and into every vein, muscle, and bone in my body. Until all that was left was the monster he always told her I’d turn out to be.

It was supposed to be me and Annalise until the end of time. She’d leave it all behind and hold my bleeding heart in her hand until the cracks started to fuse.

But she chose him. Annalise and the girl, they both chose him.

Annalise was my treasure. The prize I never deserved. And even with my fingertips outstretched, she was always just out of reach. And do you know what our ancestors did with treasures they couldn’t make use of?

They buried them.

So I did.

And Annalise remains as she should have always been—forever mine.