Despite the hour, customers already flooded the market, men, women, and children of every color and race looking for the magic cure to their problems. They were what allowed the poachers to exist. The...
Derek’s lips stretched into a smile on their own, driven not by humor but by the instinctual need to bare his teeth as the wild inside glared through his eyes.
Derek, never ever tell a woman that someone is prettier than her. You'll make an enemy for life.
Damn it all. Ascanio!The bouda sauntered forward, a picture of pure innocence on his face.What the hell are you doing? I growled.He pulled on a disarming smile like a shield. Following you.Why?Because...
Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself.Suck my dick...whore!
Dali elbowed Jim in the ribs. What he meant to say was he is sorry that duties of his office and his own paranoid nature caused him to overreact. Jim looked like someone had hit him on the nose with a...
Curran’s hair fell to his shoulders. Long, blond, luxuriously wavy, it framed his face like a mane. He sat in a room in the Pack Keep, reading a battered paperback under a cone of electric light from...
Curran was looking at her. Not in the same way he looked at me, but he was looking. An odd feeling flared in me, hot and angry, prickling my throat from the inside with hot sharp needles, and I realiz...
Curran rested the back of his head on the edge of the hot tub and closed his eyes. I stared at the way his face looked, etched against the darkness of the wall. He really was a handsome bastard. Poise...
Curran never did anything without a reason he was so controlled, even his one-night stands were premeditated.
Curran looked at me. What the hell was I supposed to do, catch the werebison as he was falling?
Cuddled up by a dragon. No, thank you. Let me off this train. If you keep wiggling, things might get uncomfortable, he said into my ear, his voice like a caress.
Congratulations, love. You traded up. Does he treat you well?' 'He's a teddy bear,' I said. Teddy Bear looked like he was suffering from murder withdrawal.
Come to dinner with me tonight and I’ll consider it.Yes! No. I don’t negotiate with terrorists.
Children think you are a god. You are the center of their universe, you can fix anything, you can shield them and protect them, and then one day they find out you can’t.
Chicks dig a man of mystery. You don’t say. You know what else chicks dig? Subatomic vaporizers? And werewolves. Chicks really dig werewolves. Poor
Can he keep from throwing his hissy fit until he gets to the cauldron?I don’t know. You’re not impressed by his warp spasm, huh?He grimaced. It’s abhorrent. Total loss of control. No beauty to it, no...
Can I be of assistance? Saiman asked.Have you ever delivered a child? Doolittle asked.Yes, I have.Good. We have to perform a C-section. One of her unborn is trying to kill the other.Fascinating, Saima...
Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravitated to me like iron shavings to a magnet. They ruined my ferocious badass image, but y...
But then I didn't run from my challenges. I met them straight on and bashed my head against them, until it left me hurt, bloody, and dazed.