All I think about is you. Every day, every minute... you.
Vlad looked mildly affronted. “I’m twice as old and twice as capable.
Bones let out a snort. “I didn’t doubt your actions for a moment. You’ve never been able to turn down playing the hero to rescue me.” Bastard, I thought, and hoped that got through loud and clear.
The sarcastic part of me had an idea. Let Gregor spend some time with me, that’ll cure him of wanting me in his life. Trouble followed me like a bad smell.
I’m Vlad Tepesh, what did you expect?
Governments might lie to their people for selfish reasons most of the time, but this one they’re spot-on about. Think there wouldn’t be worldwide hysteria if the masses knew they shared this planet with creatures from their bedtime stories? A nuclear bomb would cause less devastation.” “We could handle it,” Timmie said, his chin jutting out further. Bones let out a derisive noise. “The day your kind stops killing each other over skin color or which god someone prays to, I might believe that.
Now that I was alone and they’d taken the camera with them, I finally allowed myself to do the one thing I hadn’t done during the excruciating, soul-crushing experience. I cried.
They say the devil you know is better than the one you don’t.
Okay, so we were dealing with someone powerful and psychotically bent on revenge. Being married to Vlad, I had experience with both those things.
Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
Actions, not existence, define character.
I don’t see my death when I touch you, so I’m Team Vlad all the way.
You talked her into going without panties all these years? Madre de Dios, now that’s impressive. I could learn a great deal from you, amigo.
I wanted so badly to believe that love could conquer all. That Bones and I could make things work based on sheer feelings alone, but life wasn’t that easy. “If neither of us can change,” I said, my heart squeezing, “sooner or later, we’ll drive each other away again.
Come to think of it, pet, you are a liar, possessor of false identification, and a murderer.” “Your point?” I snapped. “Not to mention a tease,” he continued as if I hadn’t spoken. “Foulmouthed, as well. Yep, you and I will get along famously.
I always want you, and you know how fighting gets my blood up, but did it cross my mind that I’d be literally rubbing his nose in it? Yes. Better he lose his illusions, fast, when it comes to you. But would I have acted any differently if we were alone? Of course not. I can’t get enough of you.” “This isn’t going to be easy,” I grumbled as we headed toward the exit. Bones shrugged. “Nothing worthwhile ever is.
Kitten” – Bones paused from pulling on his shirt – “four hours of sleep while holding you is far more beneficial to me than eight hours of endless tossing and turning because you’re not there.
Kira had a warrior’s spirit inside her sleek, feminine frame, for true valor was best revealed when defeat was inevitable.
There’s more to all of us. Yet most times, we still only see what we expect to see.
The future is like water. All our actions ripple over it, changing its reflection.