The scope of it might have driven another man mad; it was to Kaleb’s advantage that he’d had his brush with madness as a child and survived. Whether or not he was sane was another question.
I’m possessive and I’m territorial. Can you handle that?
The dark existed whether you looked at it or not.
I want the stars for you.
All changelings knew that, sometimes, touch could heal what words never could.
If she was gone, this was it for him. He had lived over a thousand five hundred years. It was enough. If Lijuan had risen monstrous while he and Elena slept, he’d do what he could to burn out that scourge because Elena would want him to do that, but he would not live thousands of years without her. He could not live another day without her.
He wasn’t alpha because he played nice when his people were threatened. And his woman? He’d lay waste to the world for her.
She’d never realized how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment.
He also wanted her to grow up in a united world, not a divided one. Naya should never have to choose between the two sides of her heritage.
Take care of her,” he said quietly to his friend. “She is my eternity, Louis.
Cradling her face with one hand, he said, “I won’t ever clip your wings, baby.” Regardless of how much he hated the fact that she was in danger – because to do so would be to put her back in that cage, and his mate had spent more than enough time locked in the dark.
Bridges are built over thin air. Someone must lay the first plank, the first brick, take the risk.
We have to live in today,” she said, speaking to herself as much as to Beth. “Worrying about the future just steals the now from us.” “So does living in the past, doesn’t it, Ellie?
Do you truly feel nothing?” she whispered. “Are you without fractures?” “It’s better this way.” His eyes kissed her with frost. “The day I feel is the day I die.
I really need that cake now.” Startled laughter in his blood, unexpected light in the shadows, the taste of snow in her kiss. And he knew that come what may, they’d stand together. In the light and in the terrible darkness.
Rest, heal. I’ll come by again soon.” Maybe she was scared at what was being asked of her, but if Izak could smile through his agony, she’d damn well find the guts to be what he needed her to be.
And we live in a world of predators and prey,” Raphael repeated. “Remove the top predator from the chain and the entire chain collapses.
My men and women are loyal and will fight to the bloody end,” he said, his broad shoulders holding the weight of a staggering number of lives, “but I’m afraid I am about to lead them into certain death.
A vow of celibacy was easy to hold when there was no temptation.
Our people would rather go honorably in a fight against evil than cower under its hand.” Raphael took a long, deep breath, his shoulders straightening and his head rising. “No one,” he vowed, “will ever subjugate those who are our own. Never will we surrender.