The door to Blay's room opened wide without a knock, a hello, a hey-are-you-decent.Qhuinn stood in between the jambs, breathing hard, like he’d run down the hall of statues.Sh**, had Layla lost the pr...
The door opened a crack, and then Lassiter, in his game gear, stepped inside the room. As he held something out, Mary couldn’t see what it was— Wait a minute, was that a Snickers bar? What are you doi...
The corner of her mouth twitched up. This is totally inappropriate, but considering how male you are, without it— I’d be able to make love to you, he said quietly. That’s what I’d be like. Her eyes sh...
The bottom line is...if you were in the civilian population, you'd be a serial killer. Working for the government means you get to wave the American flag around when it suits you, but the truth is, yo...
The angel passed by the row of brothers, and paused in front of Vishous. In a low voice, he whispered, Who’s your daddy?
The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.
The Jeremiah guy invited me to come work for the government. He said he was with the military and they were looking for guys like me. I was all, ‘Farm boys? Y’all looking for redneck farm boys?
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...
Still, good boys liked to make their moms happy, and Blay had always been a good boy. His
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...
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....
Sorry to bother you, Bella said over the wailing. But she wants her daddy.
Sometimes words didn’t go far enough, the vessels of letters and the ladles of grammar incapable of holding the heart’s sentiments.
So out of the six major subcontractors who buy from us, there are two left? Man, that’s a turf war, right there. And whoever’s pulling this shit is probably going to try to work his way up the food ch...
Slipping in the side door to the VIP section , she scanned the crowd , well aware that she was looking for one male in particular.And he was there. Fucking John Matthew.
She. Comes. With. Me.
She wobbled, steadying herself against the pale blue walls. You’ve been going out alone? Yes. He reached out for her arm, but she tore it away from him. Beth— She yanked open the door. Don’t touch me....
She was pretty sure that if she had been, though, none of the hypotheticals would have resembled this in the slightest: surrounded by vampires, possibly pregnant, with a fallen angel in an Elvis costu...
She was glad she didn’t know where it would take her. Because sometimes the only thing thatgot you through hell was that you were in too deep to pull out. [Ehlena]
She slapped him so fast and so hard,his head actually kicked back on his spine.His first instinct was to bare his fangs and bite her,to punish her,to tantalize himself-because there was no better spic...