Sometimes dragon slayers... Were just slayers.
Sometimes gratitude could be mistaken for love. Both were warm feelings that endured. But the former was about friendship…the latter was something else entirely.
Sometimes kindness and love could be just as difficult as violence to witness. Sometimes, when you were on the outside looking in, watching two in-sync people was a scene from a horror film, the kind...
Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality. It took time for things to sink in, the new equilibrium establishing itself only after...
Sometimes the fact that you were forced to be strong was enough to actually turn you into what you had to be.
Sometimes words didn’t go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart’s sentiments.
Sometimes, nothing made you feel older and more worn out than the happiness of others. And yes, that was uncharitable—but that was why it was good that inner thoughts were things one shared only with...
Sometimes, you didn’t get what you wanted. But if you had all you needed? Life was good.
Sorry to bother you, Bella said over the wailing. But she wants her daddy.
Stepping onto the bath mat, that was also done in that god-awful deep pinky red, he toweled himself off.Still erect.Glancing at his fighting clothes, he found himself loath to put them upon his skin....
Stepping out into the hall of statues, he rushed down past the marble figures, envying them their calm poses and their serene faces. Sure as shit the everything’s-cool routine made being inanimate see...
Still, good boys liked to make their moms happy, and Blay had always been a good boy. His
Still, he forced himself to think of what Mary always said about emotions. You weren't responsible for them and you couldn't control them, but you were in charge of your response to them.
Still, it would have been great, just once, to have a man stare at her with total adoration. To have him be... enthralled. Yes, that was the word. She would have loved for a man to be enthralled by he...
Stroking her belly, he thought about what was growing inside of her. You want to know what the best part of this is? Tell me, she whispered. You have given me something . . . I didn’t even know I need...
Sure enough, all of the Brotherhood was milling around and arming themselves like they were about to head off to find his sorry ass before dawn made shit too late. All eyes swung toward him, and as he...
Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment.Hello? DiPietro waved. You in there?Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty.Over the guy's shou...
Tell me something, boys, he drawled. Do you wear that leather to turn each other on? I mean, is it a dick thing with you all?
The contraption was something V had bought but had never used: He’d kept it only because it had terrified him, and that was reason enough to own the thing. To be robbed of sight and hearing was the on...
The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.
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