You precious I insisted. Stubborn and secretive and independent to a fault, but precious.
What's going on, miscreant? Logan stood in the doorway, wearing his favorite frock coat as usual, but there were rips in his jeans.I lifted my eyebrows at his pants. Holes? He was impeccable about his...
We had a short reprieve as Dad cupped Mom’s face and ranhis hands down her neck, over her shoulders. Helena, are youhurt?She waved that away. I’m fine. She smiled briefly, thenturned hard eyes on us....
The sky was as blue and delicate as a porcelain teacup, and the hills rolled gently in all directions, intersected occasionally with the silver ribbon of a river.
The more magic you used to keep monsters away, the more monsters were drawn to you.
So what's plan B, exactly?You heard Saga. I glanced at Connor. The bogs. Saga said there are some runaway with collars living there. So I'll be bait. They'll chase me, thinking I'm weak. And then you...
Quinn glanced at me. Gonna make it?Yeah, yeah, I answered. Though what's the point? Mom's going to kill us anyway.True.If that thing doesn't kill us first, I added when the stench of rot and mushrooms...
Logan, don’t be an ass.I have been sleeping in mud. I’m covered in dirt and blood and these were my favorite pants before I landed in raccoon shit.
I might have been more worried if I hadn't been defending myself against six brothers my whole life. And if I didn't have a mother who thought she was a ninja.
I have to console myself with the hope that I'd seen Isabeau soften, even hesitate, as if she might actually have taken my arm. It was suddenly very easy to picture her in a gown with petticoats and r...
I elbowed him. Some people are scared of me, you know, like that guy over there. The guy in question paled when I looked his way and tried to hide behind a banner half his size.Nicholas snorted. Ten p...
Hunter had inherited her grandfather’s house after he died at the Battle of Violet Hill. She’d spent weeks finding and dismantling all of the hidden anti-vampire booby traps. Quinn didn’t find the sec...
He shrugged one shouler, looked away. It's not so bad,not really.Why do you stay? I asked quietly. Is it because your mother mentioned me?I knew I shouldn't have told you that, he muttered.What did sh...
Do you think Kieran thinks I did it?No, of course not. But speaking of which, has he called you yet?No.Have you called him?No.Are you both doing this on purpose to make me nuts?Oh, right, like that's...
But since we've all nearly died horribly several times in the past few days, I'll give you a free pass just for tonight. But you might, oh, I don't know, to him.And say what? I asked, scrambling out...
And though Xavier was handsome and well-to-do, he had one major flaw.He wasn't Colin.
And in her underthings, no less! Murder was less scandalous than my corset and pantalettes. She sniffed. Like mother, like daughter.
Why couldn’t we just lose ourselves in the fire again? When passion was enough, and the questions didn’t matter.
Turn your weaknesses into strengths, that's what Oliver was always telling us.Currently, my weakness was a rock digging into by backside.
They were untamed, like thunder and lightning in a glass jar. You just knew, sooner or later, the jar would shatter into pieces.