A tiger, an alligator, and a redneck walked into my pawnshop.
Monsters never get the princess in real life, but I’m selfish enough to want to keep you near me for as long as I can.
Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.
He shot across the dark and dank room and gently lowered her slight body, which seemed to weigh almost nothing, until she stood with her back to the wall, as he called a shield of water to block her from any danger.
With Quinn, safety wasn’t even an illusion. It was an impossibility.
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
He thinks I’m pining away for you, and he thinks I should be his mate.
Wishes have voices sometimes.
He’d saved her life and killed her trust. He’d thought it a fair trade, at the time.
The priest was Quinn’s biggest danger of all.
Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor – but never you.
So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
But thinking of Quinn and his future child was like gasoline to the flame of his fury.
You can shoot a gun. You just can’t hit anything you aim at.
Nothing said “successful business” like an old, dusty, busted, duct-taped taxidermied alligator.
Who is Justin Bieber, and why is his hair poisonous to small girls?” It was a long time before he could stop laughing hard enough to answer her.
There’s just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can’t judge a species by a few bad apples.
Jeremiah had said Dead End was like New York, but with fewer naked cowboys. I’d responded that New York was like Dead End, but with fewer gator wranglers.