Quick, Derek, it’s your chance to shine, Ascanio said. Derek gave him a withering look. Desandra is a mother, Robert is married, Kate’s affianced, and I’m an old soul. You’re the closest thing to a vi...
Quillonians were a reclusive race, proud, prone to drama, and violent when cornered. A couple of them had stayed at my parents’ inn, and as long as everything went their way, they were perfectly cordi...
Raphael leaned forward and lowered his voice. Have you ever seen a lion hunt a herd?No.They are very single-minded. When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose...
He looked her over very slowly. If I chose to molest you, it wouldn’t be an attempt. And you would be most enthusiastic about it.
Raphael was a bouda and they viewed sex as a fun recreational activity that should be practiced vigorously and often.
He who is feared by my enemy is my shield.
Of course, with my luck, the Shepherd could be a crazy numismatist just dying for a Kennedy fifty-cent piece. Maybe I could set a trap with a handful of change. Here, Shepherd, here boy, look, I have...
Roland had sworn off children—they kept trying to kill him.
Her life was broken like a mirror and the shards kept cutting her fingers. She was desperate to forget that she was little
Saiman picked up a coffee mug, stared at it, and hurled it against the wall. It shattered into a dozen pieces. We looked at him. Your date appears to be hysterical, Rene told me. You think I should sl...
Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.
Nothing is free. If you want it, you have to fight for it.
Scared? Of you? Nah. If you grow claws, I might get my sword, but I’ve fought you in your human shape. It took all my will to shrug. You aren’t that impressive.He cleared the distance between us in a...
Some of you know me. Some of you have seen me fight and some of you are my friends. Have your vote. But know this: if you come to remove me, come in force, because if you try to separate me from him,...
Some things were constant in the universe. Two and two didn’t always equal four, but every water-based species at some point had heated water and thrown some plants into it.
Some people in the world only saw in black and white. They were driven by fear. They had learned how to survive in their little corner of the world and they saw any change as a threat to their surviva...
For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and...
Maybe I should roll down the window to let some of the sexual tension out.
Friends make the world bearable. It’s an honor of sorts. Of all the people that a person knows, they pick you to be their friend, and you try to be worthy of that friendship.
« He squeezed his hands into fists. I picked up a grapefruit-sized rock and handed it to him. It went flying. Home run, Beast Lord style.
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