In our terms, you are a baby and I am robbing the cradle.
Trouble’s not only my middle name, it’s my first and last, too.
He held Aden’s gaze, the other man’s expression unreadable. “It’s the alpha’s responsibility and his privilege to create that environment – we are the guardians of every heart in our care.” Aden Kai might not be changeling, but he was an alpha and he held within his hands the power to change his people from the inside out.
Did you know the bear idea of courtship is to kidnap their mates off the streets? Surely not. Surely yes.
Like Raphael’s Seven,” Izak continued, aching hope in his expression. “You’re a consort. Elijah’s consort has a Guard.” Elena didn’t know what she would do with a Guard, but saying no to this fragile, broken, hopeful boy was out of the question. “Consider yourself the first member.” His smile lit up the whole room.
No power is worth you, Elena-mine. I would give up immortality for a single mortal lifetime with you.
Trembling, Mahiya walked to lean her face against Jason’s back, his wings strong and sleek and paradoxically soft on either side of her. ‘I don’t know what to think.’ She passed him the letter without shifting from her position tucked against his back. He didn’t force her to move, didn’t attempt to turn and take her into his arms – as if he understood she just needed to lean on his strength a little until the world stopped spinning.
Come on, Ms. Baird. I promised early on that I wouldn’t bite.” A slow smile. “Unless you make the request, of course.
I love you,“she said simply. honestly, forever. “You make the idea of forever a journey into adventure rather than a thing to be endured.
I can’t bury someone I love again. Not ever.” He pressed his lips to hers. “Please don’t make me, Holly.
Ena Mercant didn’t believe in flaws or perfection. “We are who we are and we are strong” was her oft-stated motto. It was a motto that had been passed down from one head of the family to the next in an unbroken line.
I’d take any pain for you.
Maybe she didn’t know exactly how to be a consort, but she knew the members of a team functioned better with acknowledgment. And these people were all part of her team now – part of her family.
Immortals don’t get heart attacks.” “Look closely. This is my not-laughing face.
Secrets have a way of rotting foundations when those foundations are meant to be built on truth and honor.
The first time I walked into the room and saw Naya asleep on Lucas’s chest while he slept, too, his hand over her naked baby butt... ” Sascha sighed, rubbing a fist over her heart. “I don’t think I’ve recovered.
No one will ever hurt you again,” he whispered against her hair, the promise one he’d kill to keep. “You’re safe.
Never again, he thought, would he be alone in the dark.
Stop that,” she ordered the gorgeous adult panther on the floor while a gorgeous baby panther tried to bite at his arm with tiny panther teeth. “I can’t have you being all sexy while Naya’s being all adorable.
I love you, Kaia Luna.” Never had he spoken those three words to a lover. “With all of the man I am, the good and the bad, the mistakes and the glories. I love you to the depths of my being, and if tomorrow I don’t wake as me –.