Worrying about me won't help you get your job done.Who says I'm worried?He stayed where he was; simply held out his hand.She crossed to him, took it, gripped hard. When I met you, she said carefully,...
With a sigh, he pulled out his link. What are you doing? Ordering pizza -- for your division -- and more for the E and B team. And don't give me any bloody grief about it. I'm a bit on edge here as I...
With Code Five, I’ll have to do the door-to-door myself. Not a simple sex crime, she said with a sigh. Whoever did it set it up. The antique weapon, the wounds themselves, almost ruler straight down t...
When you don’t know what you can have, you do okay with what you’ve got.
What the fuck was that? Is it like that vid, with the people and the pods and the dupes?Oh, that’s a scary one. It’s sort of like that. He’s in love.What with?Who, Peabody said with a laugh. Apparentl...
We’ll keep the three of them in separate rooms, keep changing interviewers on them. I’m betting on Young to fall first.’Roarke eased out of the lot, headed for home. ‘Why?’‘The bastard loves her. Love...
The younger pushed a thumb-sucking baby in a stroller with little animals dangling—including a baby elephant. The kid’s eyes looked glassy with pleasure as it snacked on its own thumb. What do they ge...
The lust for power, for dominating others, inflames the heart more than any other passion. —TACITUS
Thanks, Lieutenant. Casey's going to be really excited about Saturday. Um, can we bring something?Like what?A dish?We have dishes. We have lots of dishes.He means food, Peabody interpreted. Don't worr...
Thank you, Lieutenant.Which is why you are now assigned to me as my permanent aide. You want a detective shield, Officer?Peabody knew what she was being given: the opportunity, the gift out of nowhere...
Tag Feeney, Eve ordered when she was behind the wheel. Have him run like crimes in and around London.It would be my honor, Mrs. Lieutenant Dallas Roarke. At Eve's burning look, Peabody only grinned. S...
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Strap on one of the weapons you're not supposed to carry. Darling Eve. He leaned over, kissed her. I always have one of the weapons I'm not supposed to carry. You're not to worry about me.That's the s...
Sit down, she ordered Peabody.I prefer to stand.And I prefer to give you a good boot in the ass, but I'm restraining myself. Eve reached up, fisted her hands in her own hair and yanked until the pain...
Simple doesn’t mean unfulfilled.
She’d have put it behind her, Eve thought, but it was always behind you. In a corner, in the dark. Squatting there behind you and chuckling in its throat.
She'd barely stepped in, taken that first breath of cool, clean air, when Summerset, Roarke's majordomo, appeared in the foyer like an unwelcome vision.Yes, I missed the dinner, she said before he cou...
She wondered why things always took longer than you wanted them to take, unless you wanted them to take a lot longer—then they didn’t take nearly long enough. Time sucked.
She woke to the scent of coffee, and wondered if that was how mornings in heaven smelled.
She went to the AutoChef, programmed a vitamin smoothie. And was shocked when that’s exactly what she got.