Are you mad because I didn’t take the kiss? It wasn’t an insult. I have every intention of cashing that check. Just not with all your friends watching.I appreciate that.Yeah? Another searching look. T...
Annie used to have a motorcycle, he said, and she’d taught him to ride it. He also knew how to hot-wire one. I wasn’t asking how. Like I said, his life experience wasn’t ours.
Angst. Fear. Stark, gut-twisting terror. It didn’t make for an easy sleep.
And you knew we were alive? I said as we approached the outskirts of town.I knew were alive.That made me feel…I don’t know. There was a flutter of happiness at the thought, but some guilt, too, becau...
And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission
All right, then. Emergency medical situation, take two. He leaped to his feet, staggered, keeled over, then lifted his head weakly. Chloe? Is that you? He coughed. Do you have my insulin? I placed it...
After this, he'd probably be going to zoos, climbing the enclosure, saying, 'Here, watch this...' Famous last words, as yet another unfit human is removed from the gene pool.
After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate andblueberry bran.I texted Adam a thank-you. I’d just started eating the chocolate muffin when he texted bac...
After that, she started asking about the medical stuff.I hope you shut your mouth, Brooke said.Yes, but the questions she was asking were weird. About us again. How often did we get checked out? Did w...
After an hour of walking, I started thinking maybe I’d cuddle up with Daniel again, just to make Corey laugh. The morning had started on a light note, but it darkened fast.
After a moment, I grinned over at him. Loser.The rope slipped, he said, tugging at it, like he was testing the belay system.You just keep telling yourself that. It’ll keep you busy while you’re buildi...
A progress memo had said things like Working on getting the Enwrights flown up. Their unique skills could be helpful in this search and A scent tracker would be a huge benefit. Would love to hire a ww...
A lot of stories about me getting into trouble start with a girl.
A jerk on my harness made me look up sharply as Daniel adjusted the rope, preparing to let me belay down. The look on his face told me who’d won. Damn, I said. Seriously?By a fingertip, Rafe said. You...
A G-Rated story? About taking some deformed baby and locking him up? And if it was true, and this poor guy had been locked up in there for decades, and someone threw in a perfectly good woman, what th...
So, when I spotted a cougar stretched out on a thick pine tree branch near the park gates, I wasn't surprised. I can't say the same for the women clinging to the branch above the cat. she was the one...
You were outside? I said.Making reindeer tracks.I lifted my brows.Did you hear the kids earlier, talking about reindeer?Kate had been concerned that the chalet roof was too steep for the reindeer to t...
You really think I’d let you go to school without me? I’d show up tomorrow and hear that I got pinned running from a cougar, only to be saved by you rushing in and staring him down.Um, yeah, that’s pr...
When I headed her way, she started grinning and rocking on her toes, like she was fighting an urge to run toward me. She looked about nineteen, but her grin belonged on the face of a five-year-old. Sh...
When I finally stopped talking, she said, Are you crazy?Hey! Sam said.No, seriously. You think you’re going to change into a cougar? Maybe in thirty years you’ll start thinking college boys are kinda...