Normally I’d hide my gun in a canvas bag or a purse. Today I didn’t bother. My Baby Desert Eagle rested in a hip holster. Its magazine held twelve rounds, .40 S&W, and I’d brought two spare magazines,...
Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'I stared at him, shocked. The smile widened. You will say 'please' before and 'thank you' after. Nervous laughter bubbled up. You've gone ins...
Now climb, young grasshopper, so your Kung Fu won't be weak.
Now the muted setting made sense: a neutral setting, soothing light, a book. The deep magic fed the beast within him. It took a monumental effort of will to restrain it. With the flare so close, Curra...
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...
Oh, so it was a lifesaving kiss.Well, if you want to put it that way... Do me a favor: next time you think my life needs saving, just let me die. I'd really prefer it.He laughed.She shook her head. I'...
Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I'd never had an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.
On Harpy’s Drive we passed a row of trees, each one with its trunk unnaturally bloated and covered with black fuzz. I had no idea what the fuzz did, but we steered clear of it. The law of navigating p...
One day you’ll have to choose diplomacy or your spouse. I’m telling you now, it’s got to be your wife. Diplomacy doesn’t care if you live or die. Your wife does.
Outside I hopped into our vehicle, the taint of vampiric magic clinging to me like greasy smoke. I feel soiled. Like walking into a room after a day of work, falling into bed, and realizing the sheets...
Peope, 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: you don't have to think...
People around me died, usually in horrible and bloody ways.
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can't be free.
People must make their own choices, no matter how wrong those choices are. Otherwise they can’t be free. A
People never wanted to tell me their life stories. They usually scooted out of my way and said things like, Take whatever you want; just go.
People think I built the Pack, because I'm the guy who has the welfare of all shapeshifters in mind. They're wrong. Everything I built, I did so that when I mate and have children, nobody can touch my...
Perhaps if you were less heavy-handed in your treatment of the guests you claim to honor and protect, your inn would have a higher rating.He did not. Oh yes, yes he did. Perhaps if you trained the kni...
Punch any of mine, and I’ll break your arm off and beat you to death with it.
Say ‘pop.’ Pop?That was the sound of me pulling your head out of your ass. If you stick it back up there again, there is nothing I can do about it. This is the only lecture you’ll ever get from me.
She’d been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn’t offer any excuses.
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