So why didn’t he vanish? Charlayne nods toward Kiernan. After Max took his key, he should have disappeared, right?I would have, Kiernan says, except someone was wise enough to give me a backup when I...
Kiernan gives him a suspicious look. You performed at the Expo? Yes, Bess answers. Along with his brother, Dash. They headlined as The Brothers Houdini on the Midway Plaisance. Really? Kiernan shakes...
I fake an annoyed look at his interruption. As I was saying, your ego doesn’t need to be inflated. But as I say the words, I realize that I don’t think they’re true. Every now and then I catch him wat...
For the past year, food of some sort has been a permanent appendage to Deo’s hand. Sometimes both hands at once. At first, I teased that he was going to get fat, but then he shot upward—six full inche...
Do you still have the tux you wore as Boudini? It’s in the loft at the cabin. Why? You’ll need it in order to pose as a server. Unless you’d rather be a male companion? No thanks. An evil little part...
Connor follows Dad’s lead and steps forward to take Kiernan’s hand. I’m Connor Dunne. And you can call me Mr. Dunne. There’s a slight twinkle in Connor’s eye, so I think he’s joking. But whether he me...
But then he rolls his eyes and gives me a half smile. Fine. But if you must give me the Mark of the Beast, at least put it where I don’t have to see it constantly. Such as? If we want to be in keeping...
An annoyed huff when he sees Trey suggests Max considers him an add-on rather than true Fifth Column. But he probably thinks the same about me. Too bad we can’t just step aside and let Max save the da...
Whenever a stray thought about Aaron, Taylor, or their relationship with Molly wanders into view, I push it into the folder near the back wall so that I can quickly shove them away from Dacia’s prying...
We’re about five steps down when he says, I feel like we’ve walked into a horror movie. Two teens sneak down to the basement, where the psycho killer lurks in the dark. If you’re trying to lighten the...
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Shut up! Dacia digs her nails into my skin. You do not do the talking. I do not need you to tell me about your other phantom . . . She waves her hands, like she can’t find the word. The dead-in-your-h...
Okay, I tell Aaron, once I’ve hung up. Just so you know, Deo will call Dr. Kelsey, the police, the FBI, the entire Avengers team, and anyone else he can think of if I don’t check back in half an hour....
Not bad, he said. Chewy and sweet, too. They sell these in New York? I nodded, washing it down with lemonade. That wasn’t where Connor had bought it, but I was pretty sure they sold them in New York a...
I wondered how much Kiernan knew about the CHRONOS key from his time on the Cyrist farm, and what his reaction would be if I told him he was eating something purchased by his great-grandson.
I miss, but I do hit the board, and all eight cans tumble to the ground as a result. I win, I tell him. The goal was to knock down the cans, right? I knocked down all eight with one bullet. Can’t beat...
But I’m still too wound up to sleep. So I browse through the audiobooks on the intranet, hoping I’ll find the one I’m looking for. It’s there. . I skip to Chapter Twenty-One and forward to a section n...
If you ignore it when they’re taking rights from everyone else, pretty soon they’ll come after yours, and there’s no one left to protest.
You’re saying you have spidey sense? Can you also shoot webs out of your wrist to swing from building to building? He raises an eyebrow. No, Anna. I cannot. And I really can’t believe I’m taking crap...
Maybe Eve should never have plucked the damn apple from the tree…or maybe Adam should have had the balls to pluck it first. Maybe we should never have split the atom…or maybe we should have wiped out...