The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (A Hunger Games Novel) (The Hunger Games)

but she had a sweetness, a vulnerability that invited abuse.

No matter — snow had been the ruination of them both.

“He’s dead,” said Snow.

“But she isn’t,” Dean Highbottom

Coriolanus suppressed a gag. “Hello, Dr. Gaul.”

“I love you deeply, but I love officers’ school more?

It seemed too bleak an existence to condemn a child to. Any child, let alone one of his own.

Coriolanus hoped this was the final Billy Taupe song. What else could be said, really?

An overwhelming flush of love ran through him at her reminder that he was not alone in this tragedy.

He found himself thinking of Lucy Gray, the one and now only love of his life.

As they passed him, Coriolanus locked eyes with Sejanus, and all he could see was the eight-year-old boy on the playground, the bag of gumdrops clenched in his fist. Only this boy was much, much more frightened. Sejanus’s lips formed his name, Coryo, and his face contorted in pain. But whether it was a plea for help or an accusation of his betrayal he couldn’t tell.