Not sure where my reading process is going now...I'm just along for the ride. Here is Louisa Master's "Conspiracy of Dragons." It's the third novel in her Here Be Dragons series, which is a Hidden Species spin-off
["There’s only one person I trust…
It’s no secret that I’m hard to handle. People get annoyed by me. Sometimes they’re amused, but not for long. It’s not easy to deal with a paranoid conspiracy theorist, and I stretch everyone’s patience.
Everyone except Wil. He was there at the beginning, when I left my old life behind, and he’s stuck with me since. He’s been my friend when no one else wanted to. Patiently taught me how to fit in. He’s the one person I know I can rely on.
He’s the only man I can see myself ever being with. The only man I would want to spend eternity with.
But when my past rears its ugly head and the stuff of my nightmares rises from the dead, the hope of a happy future rapidly fades. I need him more than ever, but I can’t risk him. I can’t let anyone use him against me.
Torture doesn’t have to be physical to hurt. And I’m not going to let myself be hurt again."]
I...I feel as though I need to apologize for how I laughed at Steffen in the previous books. His trauma manifested into paranoia, and we took it as the humor it was at the time. Now that we know his story? I feel as though he could have been a looooot more paranoid, and it still would have been completely justified.
At least he had Wil. The entire time, he had Wil. Steffen has his cruches and his ways to get through the day (the hour, the minute). He was happy. But after this book? He's almost a different person. He allowed himself to get closer to his found-family, he allowed himself to make new friends, he allowed himself to take chances and trust.
This book was a glorious ending to the series.
Trigger Warnings: paranoia, anxiety, ptsd, torture, violence, brainwashing, trauma, and more.
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