This is payback, isn't it? Jim glared at me. Don't be ridiculous, I told him. As the Consort of the Pack, I'm far above petty revenge.
You know what I like about you? You have no sense. You sit here in my house, you can barely hold a spoon, and you're telling me 'no'. You'd pull on Death's whiskers if you could reach them.
(n.) The brambling finch.
Swore. Barabas said you might say that. I’m supposed to tell you this. Ascanio cleared his throat and produced a remarkably accurate impression of Barabas’s tenor. Courage, Your Majesty. I will kill h...
I ripped my left arm out of his hand and slammed my elbow into his solar plexus. He exhaled in a gasp. I lunged for the dagger and sat on top of him, my knees pinning his arms, my dagger on his throat...
My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.
No, you’re not going with him.I crossed my arms. Who decided that?He put on his I’m alpha and I’m putting my foot down expression. I decided.
Now remember, Kate. Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. You are the Consort. Be the Consort. He stretched be into a three-syllable word. Think like a-Open the door or I'll punch you right in the face...
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I understood him.A fine pair we make, he said.Yeah.
Runes, runes, runes... Runes. An inverted Algiz rune. The caption next to it said Chernobog. The Black God. Right. Of course, it wouldn’t be Chernobog, God of Morning Dew on the Rose Petals, but a wom...
What do you mean fainted?Took a dive, kissed the pavement. Swooned like a southern belle after her first kiss. Had a dreadful case of the vapors.
Will I get nights of ecstasy?And days. Ecstasy all the time.
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...
Are you happy?When I can get out of my own way.And the rest of the time?The rest of the time I'm in a state of silent panic. I'm afraid it will end. I'll lose him. Lose everything.I've done that. Lost...
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!
Derek favored his left side. His horse refused to bear him. I couldn't blame the horse. I wouldn't want his demonic, undead-blood-smeared, wolf-smelling ass riding me, either. But it made us slow.
Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone.Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay.Apparently I...
First, it took both of us to kill that thing, and if it reinvents itself again, it will take both of us again. I’m not leaving you alone with it. Second, if you try to physically carry me to the car,...
He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.
People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her, and when my r...
She put her hands over her face. Ah crap. What do I do now? Do I say something, do I not say something? I kept talking, keeping my voice as light as I could manage. Her shoulders shook slightly. She w...
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