It’s a hard lesson in life, but you have to accept that some things are out of your hands. Otherwise, you’ll never know a single minute of peace. You mend what you can, and you let the rest go. You ju...
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...
Abel was arrested. So was the guy with me. Help me get Delia out of the trunk. His expression borders on horror. Well, you knew you’d have to let her out eventually when you put her in there, didn’t y...
Having the wisdom to tell what you can’t change from what you can?
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...
Kiernan hoists one of the bags and slips the strap over my shoulder. I grab the other one, and soon I’m loaded like a pack mule, lugging two bulky military duffels in addition to my backpack.Trey lean...
I don’t know anything for certain. You and I could both explode in the next two seconds. Or the swimming pool over there could have a clone of the Loch Ness monster swimmin’ about on the bottom, ready...
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...
And one day, if I see your smile on her face, maybe that'll keep me from feeling I've left a piece of my heart behind.
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...
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Katherine leaned forward, pushing the glowing
I smiled up at him with a hopeful look. You could just unlace it now?
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...
Where's Kiernan? I asked. He's with Brother Cyrus. Your turn.The blood drained from my face and I stepped back, toward the wall. One of the older women, Glory, had died from a heart attack the year be...
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One in particular catches my eye, because I’ve met him, and also his father. You’re kidding me? The little guy who came over on the boat last week? He's a baby! Okay, not a baby , and I guess it was o...
Kiernan reaches to pull out my chair, but I beat him to it and then nudge the chair across from me out about six inches with my foot. He pulls it out the rest of the way and says, Thank you, dearest,...
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...