I thought about all the times I had brought in black witches, pitying them for their foolishness, telling myself demons were dangerous, manipulating bastards who you couldn’t beat. But I wasn’t trying...
I reached to push my hair out of my eyes, finding someone had tied a knot it in. My face screwed up in anger as I realized it was a HAPA knot. Real funny.
I popped open the hard case and carefully put the so-ugly-they-could-work-as-birth-control glasses on.
I plucked at my salt-stained shirt and tried to find an air of nonchalance as I prepared to introduce His Most Holy Pain in the Ass to Miss Elf Princess.
I opine you wouldn't know help if it smacked you in the face. Stubborn, bullheaded, wild fey thing of a woman. - Pierce
I just want my name back so my life can go back to chaotic and weird instead of chaotic and desperate.
I got it this time, Daddy Warbucks, I said,
I fail to share your optimism about our intrinsic worth to a master vampire, I said
I didn’t want to go to jail. Unlike Takata, I looked awful in orange.
I didn’t move, numb as Al sidled up alongside me and together we eyed Pierce, nervous under our combined scrutiny. If you give him a body, he said lightly, I will kill him.I looked at Al. His eyes did...
I didn’t know what I was going to say, a feeling that was compounded when the line clicked open and Trent’s very muzzy voice murmured, Rachel? Mmm, hi.
I could sit and watch nature documentaries with Jenks and the kids the rest of the night if I wanted. And trust me, watching a dozen pixies scream as a crocodile chomped on a zebra was something not t...
I could not believe this. I was going to be hacked to shreds to the accompaniment of applause.
I can’t do easy anymore. It’s too hard on my soul.
I can think of a lot of things to do, he said, and none of them involve standing up. - Al
How many mistakes can one life survive?
Hello-o-o-o-o, Nick, I said, hitting thek hard. You’re the world’s biggest jerk for what you did to Jax. You ever show your scrawny face in Cincinnati again, and I’m going to shove a broomstick up you...
Head lowered, Al looked at his bare hands, folded in his lap. I knew you could, otherwise I wouldn’t have let you get into that position. But now everyone else knows it, too. I wasn’t expecting how vu...
He cupped my jaw with his hand. It was warm, and I didn't pull away. And then there are the rare ones who know love, who understand it. Who freely give of themselves, demanding only a return of that l...
Having been a demon curse, however brief, should leave a mark. A streak of silver hair, or bewitching eyes. Maybe crows on one's roof or a hound from hell at your heel. Blowing out my breath I stood a...