Oh. Shit. I breathed, arms shaking as I tried to push myself up, failing. That's okay. It's nice just to lie here.
Oh God. Kisten.What would he say if he knew Ivy had bitten me? I told you so, or maybe My turn?
No, she said firmly. I want you to stay when I go. Break tradition again, my love, and burn me alone in the home we built. I don't want you with me. You aren't done. You see too far ahead. You need to...
Never hide who you are,
My eyes widened at the ball of orange fluff squeezing out from under the counter, blinking and stretching. I looked again, not believing. It’s a cat, I said, winning the Pulitzer prize for incredible...
My coffee was steaming, and I hunched over it while I watched the demon. His long fingers were interlaced about the white soup-bowl mug as if relishing its warmth, and though I couldn’t tell for sure...
My breath slipped from me, almost a groan. Trent Kalamack. The obscenely successful, smiling businessman, ruthless bio- and street-drug lord, elf in hiding, and pain-in-my-ass-extraordinaire Trent Kal...
Maybe he'll go away if we don't answer, I said, and Jenks rose - sixty feet in a mere second. In another second, he dropped back down.He's coming around back, he said, his gold dust looking black thro...
Married pixy, I told myself, forcing my eyes back to the shelf of ceramic animals. Fifty-four kids. Beautiful wife, sweet as sugar, who would kill me in my sleep while apologizing for it.
Just what I need. My own personal shoulder devil, wearing black and smelling like the Garden of Eden.
Join us next time for Days of the Undead when Rachel learns her long lost brother is really a crown prince from outer space. My life was so screwed up.
It wasn’t the bent, nasty, yellow laminated four-by-six card everyone else got but a real heavyweight plastic tag embossed with my name. Jenks had one, too, and he was obnoxiously proud of it even tho...
It wasn’t that the dark side was stronger, but that everything was the dark side. All magic was inherently wrong, and it was only us fooling ourselves that some of it was good, some of it was bad. Mag...
It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn’t be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books! he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)
It pulled emotion from me I wasn’t aware I could feel. A deep painful regret. Unrequited need.
If you think living with Ivy and trying to avoid getting bitten was difficult, wait until you try living with her while trying to find a blood balance. This isn’t an easier road, Rache, he said, gaze...
If he betrays you, I will finish what I started with his fingers, he said, and I shivered. Tell him that.
I took a breath, seeing from across the room the rain on his eyelashes. A sudden need to brush them free filled me. I could almost feel the dampness of the rain on my fingers, how soft it would feel.
I may be a pawn, I said as I locked my shaking knees. But I’ve been to the other side and survived the trip back and can move like a queen.