I’m your best bet to keep Roland from taking over.Yes.Young, in need of being taught.Evdokia crossed her arms. Yes.Easily manipulated? Emotionally compromised? Are these my best qualities?Evdokia thre...
Jealous of the actors now, are we? What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable. Oh, this was going to be good.
No, I never expect people to be idiots, George said. I do expect them to lack some of the necessary information, because experience has demonstrated to me that assuming someone in a key position knows...
Johns Hopkins, which was a trip I was doing my best to forget. We almost died, and while we were away, a local family we knew was murdered. Julie and Derek had handled it, but thinking about it still...
No. Roman got up off his chair. The wedding night is for you and Curran. The wedding is for everyone else and it’s the price you pay so you can get to the wedding night.
Just reflecting on the fact that when the Universe punches you in the teeth, it never just lets you fall down. It kicks you in the ribs a couple of times and dumps mud on your head.
Kate makes good sausage, Jim said.Six pairs of eyes stared at me. Thank you, Mr. Wonderful. Just what I needed.Oh yeah, Andrea snapped her fingers. The links? The ones we had the beginning of the mont...
Kate sat at her desk. Grendel sprawled by her feet, an enormous black monstrosity that had more in common with the hound of the Baskervilles than with any poodle I had ever seen.
Kate smirked.What?Your horse looks pink.So?If you paste some stars on her butt you'll be riding My Little Pony.Bugger off. I patted the mare's neck. Don't listen to her, Sugar. You are the cutest hors...
Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips...
Kate? Yes? I managed. It’s me, Julie. Are you dying? I could tell she desperately wanted a different answer. I love you. The expression on her face twisted something inside me. I looked from her to Cu...
Lago nodded knowingly. The thing with the Beast Lord didn’t turn out, huh? That’s okay, I heard that guy is a dick. You don’t need that shit. Curran’s
Those who remain have forgotten they are alive. They think they have more in common with their fallen than with their enemy. Nothing could be further from the truth. I know the difference between life...
This isn’t over! Leroy jabbed his finger at Curran. He probably meant it to look aggressive, but he was swaying on his feet. Yes, it is, Curran told him. Go before I change my mind.
So far my best plan would be to build a mountain of gasoline cans and explosives, stick a Property of US Government sign on it, and throw a T-shirt over Pierce’s head when he showed up to explode it....
Will you stop eating it, I growled. No, Andrea said. She was sitting on the ground and chewing on some unidentifiable chunk of bull flesh. It’s a piece of meat from something a djinn summoned.You don’...
Life is trade; we trade our labor for its fruit, we trade hours of study for knowledge, we trade pleasure for pleasure or sometimes for wealth, security, or offspring.
Life is trade; we trade our labour for its fruit, we trade hours of study for knowledge, we trade pleasure for pleasure or sometimes for wealth, security, or offspring.
Like a primitive savage, who sets out to tame the wilderness armed with nothing but a knife and his indomitable will, I will persevere. I will wrestle victory from the greedy jaws of defeat. I shall r...
Why the hell would anyone be eating at the Grease Trap? I’ve seen flies die from buzzing by that place. Andrea crossed her arms. Oh, I don’t know, probably because your career just ended and you are d...
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