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...
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.
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.
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...
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...
I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.
Because he has the best equipment in the City and he knows how to use it!
What is wrong with you?Many, many things.
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.
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.
I'm investigating people who sacrifice trained killers to dark gods.Perfect, it will keep him occupied.In what capacity?Bait.
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...
He bared his teeth in a happy feral grin. My own personal psycho.
Would you like to work here with me?We have no clients and the pay is shit.
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...
Will I get nights of ecstasy?And days. Ecstasy all the time.
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.
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...
My ego doesn't need soothing. I don't want him soothing anything of mine, including you.
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,...