That’s the problem. People, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It’s easy to be a cog in a machine: yo...
Teddy bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.
Stop looking at her and you might live longer, Curran said, his voice nice and friendly.
Still think she is worth it? Mahon asked quietly.Of course. She is my mate.Mahon sighed. So you decided then.Do you think we’d be laying here bleeding in the snow if I wasn’t sure?Good point.
Sometimes life just kept punching you in the teeth, no matter how many times you got up.
Someone knocked.I paused, the chicken halfway to my mouth, and glared at the door. The knocking persisted. It wasn’t Derek. His knock would be careful, almost apologetic. This bastard knocked like he...
Somehow this new, on-his-best-behavior version was scarier than witnessing him calmly breaking a man with his bare hands. After what we’d been through, I would’ve expected him to hole up somewhere dar...
Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.
So we have giant super-smart vipers who slithered in here, killed our people, opened the vault, stole something from it, and slithered out, undetected?Appears so.Okay. Just wanted to make sure it wasn...
So that’s the secret, the Beast Lord said.I froze with the spoon halfway to my mouth. That was it. He had figured out what I was and now he was playing with me.You okay? he asked. Gone a bit pale ther...
Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.
She’s your Herald, Derek said. That’s your color. Blue for humanity. My what? He made a big show of moving a few feet to the side. I looked at him. In case your head explodes, he said helpfully.
She has a high opinion of herself, Andrea said. Oh yes. When she gets into a car, her ego has to ride shotgun.
Raphael turned me over and looked at me, his face close to mine. You and I will never be done.You're my mate.He kissed the corner of my mouth. I almost cried.I stopped sleeping since you left, he said...
Raphael pulled out a paperback and handed it to me. The cover, done back in the time when computer-aided imagine manipulation had risen to the level of art, featured an impossibly handsome man, leanin...
Please tell me there is coffee.Aunt B grimaced. They're already crazy. If I let them have coffee, they'd be bouncing off the walls. We have herbal tea,...I needed to find Julie, find her mom, convince...
People get upset over many things. Frustrating jobs, small paychecks, bad hours. People want things; people feel humiliated by others who have the things they want; people feel deprived and powerless....
People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.
Or a stuffed animal. I would’ve cuddled with it at night. I sighed heavily. Oh well. I guess that’s never going to happen. Arabella giggled. Grandma pointed the breaker bar at her. Quiet in the peanut...
Ooo. Hugh sucked the air in, narrowing his eyes. Mean. I like mean.