We better get in the car before I back you right into your house and give in to my ungentlemanly side.” Though her cheeks were red, her breath shallow, Charlotte said, “You have a gentlemanly side?
Sascha. The only child she had ever borne. The cardinal who everyone had told Nikita was flawed, but who she’d known was a power who could not be allowed to come into her own. To do so would equal her death. So she’d crushed her child, and in so doing, saved her life and forever lost her.
When did you get so bossy, Ms. Baird?” “Self-defense against a certain T-Rex.
Bye, Trace. Hope you and Andreja have a good day. Oh, I may be arrested for homicide soon. Please come visit me in prison.
Your father and Nikita. Man likes to live dangerously.” Faith.
You’re the best of us.” A potent statement. “The best. The strongest, the smartest, and the one with a heart stubborn enough that it resisted Silence and cared for the most damaged among us.
For future reference, I am never, ever going to a ball again without a crossbow and a flamethrower.
A single act of kindness can change a life.
We are not that anymore. We are not only assassins trained to die and to kill. We do not abandon the weak or the hurt. And we never, ever leave our own behind.” That, he decided at that instant, would be the new motto of the squad, be what all trainee Arrows were taught. No Arrow is disposable. No Arrow is to be left behind.
It had never occurred to her that she might adore the adult Clay even more than she had the youth, but there it was. The man her friend had grown into – well, he enchanted her, brooding temper, dark kisses, animal protectiveness, and all. To her delight, the feeling seemed to be mutual. But the separation had scarred them both. What would it do to Clay if this disease succeeded in killing her?
Without you, I would be a monster.
Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem a half-forgotten dream. When he landed in the courtyard, his wings flaring out for an instant, he was at once very much a man, physical and sexual, and an unattainable fantasy.
Shooting her as close as Aodhan ever came to a glare, he said, “Illium is a bad influence on you.” “Way I hear it, he’s been a bad influence on you since you were tiny tots.
A woman who knows me, understands what I am, and who wants to have secret rules with me.
Sleep, he said, and because he couldn’t bear to think of her in pain: As you dream, know that you are loved. ‘Course I am. I’m yours.
My love, sun of my heart.
This time, his bear stayed quiet, finally getting with the “sneaky like a cat” program. Today.
Aden, I’m not fixed, she said, the words holding despair. You were never broken. There’s nothing to fix.
Good. It’s better if my DNA isn’t passed on.” “Why? You’re smart, beautiful, powerful.” “I’m also mentally unstable and may have tendencies toward criminal insanity.
There’s nothing wrong with caring for the people we love; the problem only comes when it’s one person giving all the time. When it goes both ways, you have love.