Teaser Tuesday #38: Balthazar by Claudia Gray

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.

Balthazar 

by Claudia Gray

“Someday you’ll understand: There’s nothing and no one you can love that I can’t destroy.”
“I don’t love Skye,” Balthazar said.
Redgrave laughed, and then he disappeared—melting into the shadows almost instantly, leaving Balthazar standing there alone.
His words seemed to hang in the air: I don’t love Skye.
He wanted them to be a lie, for her protection even more than for his.
I don’t. I couldn’t.
And yet no matter how many times he said it, no matter how many ways he put it, it never sounded entirely true.