Things We Did Out of Devotion

Calystria Soleil Delavaine doesn't have time to believe in love. She understands people too well for that-how they think, what they hide, and what they become when pushed too far. To her, emotions are not something to feel, but something to observe.

Azrael Noctis Suvallier has been by her side since childhood-constant, familiar, and dangerously attached in a way neither of them ever questioned. Then there is Zephyr Yves Velascoir, the boy no one ever noticed... until Calystria looked at him and decided he could be useful.

"You can be useful to me." She never meant for those words to mean anything beyond control. But Zephyr started building his entire existence around them, while Azrael slowly realized that the girl he grew up with was not as simple as he thought.

They have a way of making sure people don't cross them twice.

And when something buried in Calystria's past begins to resurface, she learns that devotion is never harmless-it is something created... and something that always comes with a cost.