I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I was so pissed off at what happened, at myself, I didn’t think.He stroked a hand down her hair first, then gave the choppy ends a quick tug. I’m not angry with you.I know. You c...
It was hardly a wonder that it had been her, essentially from the first minute he’d seen her. That it would be her until his last breath. And very likely well beyond that.
It stunned him how much he could want her still, baffled him that she could be blind to how helpless he was under the clawing need for her. It infuriated him that she could, simply by existing, be his...
If you tell me I'm sensible in addition to normal and wise, I'm going to punch you in the stomach.
I'm not trying to box you in. I'm just trying to live with you.
I don’t like to think of her as pretend Peabody anymore. The more we find out, the meaner and crazier she gets. It’s like it’s bad enough fake Peabody got murdered, but now fake Peabody is a dead, bla...
His eyes were the color of the scrim that forms on street puddles in January. A cold and dirty gray.
He held up a hand. You've come perilously close to being written up for insubordination, Lieutenant. I expect better control from you, and have rarely had the need to remind you of it.Yes, sir.Moreove...
He did what he could to make himself comfortable in the back of the police issue.
Get ready to do just that. Eve grabbed her coat.Oh my God. Reo made a hum of almost sexual pleasure.Really? Keeping some distance, Eve shrugged into the coat. Seriously, sex noises over a coat?It’s …...
Friends give you a cushion for the fall, even when you think you don’t need or want one.
For once, he slept first. She lay in the dark, listening to him breathe, stealing a little of his warmth as her own body cooled. Since he was asleep, she stroked his hair.I love you, she murmured. I l...
For now, for one night, the pressures of the job were light-years away. He could do that to her, and for her, she realized. He could open little pockets of peace.
Eve leaned in again. I am a ranking officer. If you call me a bitch, you’d better damn well put Lieutenant in front of it.
Do little pink fairies sing and dance in your world, Peabody?Sometimes, when it's very quiet and no one else can see.
Couples still indulge in courting rituals, humans still kill humans, and politicians still kiss babies and lie.
Champagne for my wife, he said without taking his eyes off her. He drew her chair back himself. Let me introduce you to Natalie and Sam Derrick.So this is Eve! I’m just thrilled to meet you. Natalie f...
But, Christ on a tricycle, Roarke, this is going to be a pain in my ass.
But a book? You go into it. There’s no visual or auditory other than what forms in your own mind. You visualize the characters, the scene, through the words. You, as reader, interpret the tone of voic...
Bet the first guy who made fire figured he was a god, and the other cavemen bowed down to him. Or bashed him in the head with a rock and stole his burning stick. She