Charles asked me to stay here, she said, rather than confronting Hosteen with his lie. “You aren’t my Alpha-and even if you were, he can’t make me do anything, either.” She tappef herself in the chest with one of her needles and half sang, “Omega. Me.” Dropping into her own voice she said, “As an Omega wolf, I don’t have the urge to obey you. At all. Not even the tiniest bit. Don’t worry, it makes the Merrick crazy too.
Never run from a predator. Even the most behaved of them will have a hard time restraining themselves from chasing after a prey.
We are all monsters here, he said. It’s too late for any of us to be anything else.
Maia was either going to grow up to rule the world or loose a planetwide plague upon the land. Maybe both.
If you touch me, Charles will hunt you down and eat your marrow while you are still alive to scream.” She called upon her two acting classes and let her mouth turn up. “I’ll be happy to watch.” She licked her lips. The smile dropped off his face, and he growled.
Honey will wipe the floor with you.” His eyes went half-mast, and his voice dropped in evident pleasure. “I know.
That was Bran, quiet and calm until he ripped out your throat.
There are some things that honest, honorable people don’t do to the people they love. They don’t propose marriage on TV. They don’t bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don’t tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn’t help that most of us could tell that she wasn’t lying.
You have a real gift for getting into trouble, don’t you? That was one thing I forgot when you left the pack.” “How is any of this my fault?” I asked hotly. He sighed. “I don’t know. Does it matter whose fault it is once you’re sitting in the middle of the frying pan?” He gave me a despairing look. “And as my father used to point out, you find your way into that frying pan way too often for it to be purely accidental.
When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.
The lawyer’s assistant, who was scribbling down notes, lit right up. “Magic is supposed to affect electricity like that. I’ve read that wizards can’t be in the same room with things like computers and stuff.” I knew where she’d read that. I bit my.
Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.
The next time you leap into a burning building after me, you’d better make damned sure I’m in there. And wear your shoes, damn it.
I knew a little bit about Prague. The first thing that came to mind was that Prague citizens had a habit of throwing powerful officials out of windows – the Second Defenestration of Prague began the Thirty Years War in 1618. There wasn’t another capital city with a First Defenestration that I knew of, let alone a second one. Prague was full of my kind of people.
Not mere luck. I am stalking Mercy. Of course I was around, because that’s what stalkers do, or so I’ve read. It’s my new hobby.
I would never disrespect your grandmother’s rolling pin. Your old pack did everything in their power to turn you into a victim, and when that crazy wolf started for me, you still grabbed the rolling pin to defend me from him, even though you were terrified of him. I think it is the bravest thing I have ever seen. And possibly the only time anyone has tried to defend me since I reached adulthood.
Truth has many facets. Choose the ones that make her happy to be alive instead of the ones that make her want to smack you.
Touch is better than any word.
Can you hear the silence? It’s the good kind of silence, not the silence that listens back.
Coyote,” said Hopi Woman dryly, “doesn’t much worry about understanding anything, which is why he understands so much.