This is payback, isn't it? Jim glared at me. Don't be ridiculous, I told him. As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.
Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said Chernobog. The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a wom...
The vampire stared at me, his mouth slack as Ghastek assessed his options. I took a couple of forms from my desk, put them into the vamp's mouth, and pulled them up by their edges.What are you doing?...
Man can't handle the chaos. Oh, you can understand it in the abstract, as long as you don't think about it too hard. But at the core of it, whenever humans come against chaos, they deal with it in one...
Every time you see a problem and walk away from it, you set a new standard.
Hold your horses. I'm coming....From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously.The snow swam out of focus. Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-...
I don’t know any lion hunters, period. And you know what, apple pie worked for me.I’ve got news for you, it wasn’t your apple pie Curran was interested in.
You don’t do subtle. Your subtle is pulling a kick so you don’t kill a man with it, just break his bones.
I can buy your contract. No, you can’t. Any sale of our mortgage requires my consent, and I won’t consent to it. He grinned. You don’t want to work under me? I’m not even going to dignify that with an...
You threw him away. Sloppy, Hugh.
Look, it can be fast, good, or cheap. You can have any two but never all three.
Have you ever met someone and felt . . . I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know . . . Forget I said anything.I knew what he meant. He was desc...
The boy wonder didn’t melt into a pile of goo, although his gaze was glued to Rowena’s chest. Avoiding eye contact. Good strategy.
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity.
He plugged the phone into the outlet.It rang. Roman stared at it as if it were a viper. The phone rang again. He unplugged it. There. It can’t be that bad, I told him. Oh, it’s bad. Roman nodded. My d...
Kate usually dealt with things by talking, and when that didn't work, chopping obstacles into tiny pieces and frying them with magic so they didn't get back up.
If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.
You and me. This wasn’t in the plan. The plan was to be alone, to hide, and to kill Roland. Being happy was never one of the bullet points. Some part of me is still convinced it’s a fluke and eventual...
Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
I ripped my left arm out of his hand and slammed my elbow into his solar plexus. He exhaled in a gasp. I lunged for the dagger and sat on top of him, my knees pinning his arms, my dagger on his throat...
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