Lily, Mom said, we need to talk.I don't think I'm ruining the surprise by pointing out that nothing good happens when someone starts a speech like that.
Where was a boom box when you needed one?
There are those amongst us who have erred, deeply and significantly. Who have wounded the world and broken themselves. The worst of them lose themselves in their errors. The best of them crawl back, o...
There is nothing we want quite as much as the thing we know we can’t have.
Now that we’ve done the tea party, Luc said, pushing back the notepad and settling into his chair, it’s time for our annual review of Rules You Disrespectful Bastards Never Follow.
I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dust—the perfumes of knowledge.
Hey, better than the real thing, I said. What do you even do with a chimera?What wouldn’t you do with a chimera? Jeff asked. They’re like the Swiss Army knife of animals.Party in the front, business i...
Hot beef in the name of peace.
My spreadsheets bring all the girls to the yard. Hi, Merit.
And so it began, I thought, the first wave of a revolution against oppression, fought with corn syrup and chocolate.
My job is to ensure the sanctity of this House. Ensuring the sanity of its Master seemed like a good start.
The moral of the story? Don’t fuck with the magical order.
Ditto, Ethan said, a surprising amount of venom in his voice. I bit back a proud smile; he seemed to be adopting a little of my snark.
You’re quiet this evening, he said. I pasted on a pleasant smile. It’s been a long week. I’m just trying to relax. And I was trying to avoid more drama. He was quiet for two or three minutes, during w...
That's our cue to depart. They know something I pointed out. I know something too. I know we're going to attract a lot of unwanted attention if they keep screaming. And then we have to make up some r...
If only we could have picked our family...
There is no torture so sweet, no punishment so sublime, as the couple’s wedding shower.
You are mine, Merit.
Vampires were hardly the monsters we were made out to be in fairy tales and television shows. We were hardly different from humans, but for the genetic mutation, fangs, silvering eyes, and periodic pe...
There are some decisions that we make, and some that are made for us. Sometimes you accept the path that's offered to you, and you live the path – that life – with grace. And sometimes you push forwar...
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