Where are we going? Desandra asked.We’re going to Blue Ribbon Stables, I said. It’s the closest place to rent a horse.Why? Desandra asked.Because I can’t keep up with you on foot, I said.And she runs...
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...
(n.) The brambling finch.
You can’t blame me, Ascanio said. Anybody in my place would be concerned. You don’t even have a proper horse. You’re riding a mutant equine of unknown origin.Don’t disrespect my donkey
A dense wall of greenery bordered it, ...an impenetrable barrier of oaks, evergreen shrubs, blackberry that somehow resisted the frost, and thorns. In the defense department, the witches would make Sl...
Getting a lecture on restraint from the woman who threw a hissy fit and blew up Babylon.
He whirled in the water and grinned at me. Damn, he was a handsome bastard. I realized he was half-naked. Blue swirls of tattoos painted his chest. When God made that chest, he did to tempt women.
He'd laugh in my face, then I'd slice him to ribbons and then he'd break my neck
Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.
Hold your horses. I'm coming....From where I'm standing you're just breathing laboriously.The snow swam out of focus. Breathing hard. Are you coming or just breathing hard. You've got to get your one-...
I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what’s the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill it...
I know it may come as a shock, but it's sort of considered polite to wait for the consent of the woman. In fact, I'm pretty sure that if you don't wait, you may have to deal with pesky criminal charge...
It's not a loup cage, you know,' I told her. 'It's a holding cell. Or safe room. or secure room. I don't think Jim ever settled on a term he could live with.''Aha. It's a loup cage.' Andrea cleared he...
Landon paced back and forth, his eyes a little wild. ‘’Well, he took it worse than I did,’’ Curran said. ‘’I don’t see what the big deal is.‘’‘’It’s a sword made out of your grandmothers bones, Kate.’...
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.
Obviously I was missing the whole picture. Any minute now he would leap up, wrench the two-inch silver alloy bars apart despite the fact that silver was toxic to shapeshifters, and heroically kick Sai...
The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. Nice knife. The voice was deep but female.I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage’s chest. Shit. Missed the neck. Here, have ano...
Two hours. More than enough time to kidnap a man. Or to slice his throat, bury him in the forest, and steal his magic project. How the hell did de Harven fit into it? Did he surprise the thieves? Of c...
When in doubt, poke the beehive with a stick to see if anything interesting flies out.I clapped my hands. 'I had no idea Pit teams had such pretty cheerleaders. Can you do it again, but with more spir...
Would you like to borrow a pair of my panties to wave around at the next Council meeting to get the point across?His eyes flashed. Got any to spare? I could’ve picked somebody rational. But no, I had...
You think he's got 'government badass' tattooed on his chest? I murmured.A faint grimace skewed Luther's mouth. And 'I'd tell you but I'd have to kill you' on his ass.
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