Next to me, Saiman smiled. We all want what we can't have, Kate. I want you, you want love, and he wants to break my neck.
You know anything about investigative work?Sure. Annoy the people involved until the guilt party tries to make you go away.
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
The skull sat on top of an old Stop sign. Someone had painted the surface of the octagon white and written KEEP OUT across it in large jagged letters. A reddish-brown splatter stained the bottom edge,...
Who snitched?We have people monitoring police radio frequencies. They gave Jim a heads-up in case our security had to storm PAD offices and bust you out of there. I found out when I saw Jim walking do...
The vampire leaned forward, tapping a scimitar claw. Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?Yep.Is he carrying a moon on his pitchfork?No, it's a pie.
You're right, my problems are the biggest problems ever, George said. No, honestly, it's horrible to be me. I'm rich, talented, and I make girls cry.How do you make girls cry, exactly?George turned to...
This doesn't mean you're getting a discount.Audrey heaved a mock sigh. Oh well. I guess I'll have to ply you with sexual favors, then.Gnome choked on the soup. I'm old enough to be your grandfather!Au...
Aha, Andrea said. I'm going to ignore that you just referred to yourself as 'sugar woogums'.
Im's offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk's claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My ch...
I know it's late, but could you find a book for me? It's called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev.Barabas sighed dramatically. Kate, you make me despair. Let's try that again from the t...
You sure you don't need your Prince Charming to come and save you? The knot in my stomach evaporated. My Prince Charming huh. Sure, do you have one handy?
When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you...
When alone in a dark forest waiting for an audience with an evil god, the most prudent course of action is to be quiet and wait. ‘Prudent’ wasn’t one of my favourite words.Hello? I’ve come to borrow a...
Tiny gold sparks flared in his irises. You're in my rooms in my bathtub naked and you're still mouthing off.Did he expect anything different? Hey, I didn't kick or punch you in the throat. I consider...
I also stole a small yellow doughnut from the box of Duncan's doughnuts in the rec room and fed it to the attack poodle in my office. He made a great production of it. First, he growled at the doughnu...
The black volhv pivoted to me. I have questions.Can it wait?No. Your wedding is in two weeks. Have you prepared your guest list?Why do I need a list? I kind of figured that whoever wanted to show up w...
It could be worse, he said finally. Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering.
I'm counting to ten in my head.Is it helping?No.It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate frustration, but someone blowtorched my weight bench. How did you do it, by the...
He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck