Mallory! Catcher's voice boomed down the stairs.Mallory fixed her mouth into a tight line and walked me into the kitchen. Ignore it, she advised. Much like the bubonic plague, it'll go away if you giv...
I’m here, he said. Be still.
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood. —Daniel Burnham
Not bad for a ‘common soldier,’ hmm? I quietly asked, then resheathed my katana and headed back toward the chapel. I could feel his gaze on my back as I walked away, so I decided to play it up. I paus...
I’m going to change clothes. Ethan lay down on the bed, one arm behind his head, ankles crossed. All right, he said. I’m ready. Dirty. Old. Man.
Merit, Catcher said, sitting beside Mallory on the couch, an arm around her shoulders. It’s nice to see you clothed again.And now that she is, Gabriel said, standing, we should get moving.Where are we...
Grief was a miserable emotion. A friend once told me the hurt that came with the end of a relationship was painful because it was the death of a dream—the future you’d imagined with a lover, a loved o...
He clearly wasn’t dissuaded, and stroked my jawline with his thumb. You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.
You are mine, Merit.
Together—like a moth to a flame, there’d be nothing left.
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...
He was an imperialistic, self-righteous pain in the ass. But he was my pain in the ass, you know? And tonight, I won’t be with him. That definitely feels strange.
You're perfect- beautiful, intelligent, intractable in a kind of... attractive way. Headstrong, but a good strategist. An amazing fighter.But that's not enough?It's too much. You think I haven't thoug...
There is no torture so sweet, no punishment so sublime, as the couple’s wedding shower.
How did men manage to offer a compliment that transitioned from sweet to utterly salacious in the span of a few words?
It’s always darkest before the dawn,
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...
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...
We'll see if she can rise to the occasion, do what needs to be done.We'll see if she can manage not to kill her Liege and Master, especially if he continues talking about her like she's not in the roo...
Scout released me, then wiped tears from beneath her eyes. Catharsis, I guessed. I’ve said itbefore and I’ll say it again—you seriously rock, Parker.Tell me again, Green, I said as we switched on flas...
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