Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?His eyes flashed. Got any to spare? I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had...
Why am I the expert all of a sudden? Of the two of us, you have more stalking experience. He leaned back. Really? Yes. When you let yourself into my apartment before we were dating, did you fidget whi...
Whoa’’ . . . Leonard started. Cuddles reared and tossed her head. The vamp slid on the glass and she dragged him left. ‘’Whoa’’ . . . She dragged him right. ‘’Come on!’’ Cuddles kept turning and reari...
When life hits you in the gut, it’s always a sucker punch. You never see it coming. One moment you’re walking along, worrying your little worries and making quiet plans, and the next you’re rolled int...
What's so funny?Your panties have a bow, he said.I looked down. I was wearing a short tank top -not mine- and my blue panties with a narrow white strip of lace at the top and a tiny white bow. Would i...
What is it you want from me, Hugh?Short term, I’d like you to say my name with a please attached to it. I’d like to walk into Jester Park with you on my arm.[...]Long term, I want to win. And I will w...
What do you mean fainted?Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.
What did you write on here? ‘Don’t die’?No, I wrote, ‘Don’t be an asshole!’I headed for the house.On yours or mine?On yours.Well, in that case, your magic isn’t working. I’m still an asshole.
Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet. They took snapshots of their servers and sent the data to a central...
They say the dead have no memories and know no pain. George’s voice was barely above a whisper, but somehow it was louder than the pleas of the corpses. It’s not that way for me.
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?...
The stallion stared in my direction and bared his teeth. Now horses were giving me crap.
The smile died. It was like the sun being turned off. I felt like a moment of silence was in order.
The second hour, you are injured but you keep going. The third hour, you realize you’ve had your fill of blood. You want to be done. You want off the battlefield. In the fourth, you notice the faces o...
The pain gets better with time, I told her. It always hurts, but it gets better.
The heavy eyelids snapped open. Jack froze. A huge gold-and-amber eye, as big as a dinner plater, stared at him. The dark pupil shrank, focusing.Jack stood very still. The colossal head turned, the sc...
The four words of power. Obey, Kill, Protect, and Die. Words so primal, so dangerous, so powerful that they commanded the raw magic itself.
Stop looking at her and you might live longer, Curran said, his voice nice and friendly.
Stay near me on the way back.Surprise slapped her face. She turned it into cold arrogance.Worried about my survival?Don’t want to miss an opportunity to use you as a body shield.How sweet of you.Stay...
Sometimes I jump on the table and kick people in the face, but I’m always civil about it.