Curran looked back at me. “Why is it you always attract creeps?””You tell me.” Ha! Walked right into that one, yes, he did.

Doode,” George said.He’d practiced all morning but still didn’t get it quite right. “Nope, more u, less oo. Duuude.””Dude.””Dude.””Okay, dude.” George nodded. “How’s it hanging?” Jack asked. “How am I supposed to answer that?” George...

Failure happened. The trick was to accept the risk and try anyway.

I need to fan myself.””No, you don’t.

My investigative technique mostly consisted of going through the list of interested parties and making as much noise as possible, until the culprit lost his patience and tried to shut me up.

You’ll lose.””What makes you so sure?””You have no discipline. All you do is tear down shit down. My father is a bastard, but at least he builds things. You turn cities into smoking ruins and...

Unfortunately, the Best Lord had condemned both vehicles as unsafe and instead I now leased a Pack Jeep I called Hector. Equipped with dual engines, Hector worked during magic or tech. He didn’t go very...

Curran strode toward me, eyes blazing. “If I let her go, I’ll need a replacement. Want to volunteer for the job.”He looked like he wouldn’t be taking no for an anser. I swiped Slayer from...

Rose put down her fork. “Lord Submarine…” “Camarine.” “Whatever.

Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.

Bad hobo.”The finger kept coming closer.

All his internal organs, with the exception of the heart, atrophied long ago. The throat makes for a very good storage cavity. People seem to prefer it to the anus.”Translation: be happy I didn’t pull...

I’m secure enough in myself to wear panties with bows on them. Besides, they are comfy and soft.””I bet.” He almost purred.I gulped.

I’m going to kick you in the head when I get home. Repeatedly.

Dear rabbis, I’m so sorry, I nuked your circle dude. Here is his head as a souvenir. Yeah, that would fly.

One day I’ll kill him, you know.I glanced at her. She was deadly serious.

Nope.

Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet. They took snapshots of their servers and sent the data to a central...

Kate’s Speciality: Killing things, with much bloodshed. Talking trash, infuriating authority. Driving Beast Lord crazy.

No, you can’t,” a distant voice answered

Since I’ve moved here, you have shown up at my door eight times. I obey the laws, I pay my taxes, and I haven’t even gotten a parking ticket in my entire time as a...

I’ll call you,” he repeated.”If you call me, I won’t pick up the phone.””You will wait by the phone for my call, and when it rings, you will pick it up and you will speak...

Enough,” Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. “I’m sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your...

People around me die. They drop like flies. I’ve gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my guardian is dead, my aunt is dead—because I killed her,...

I hit him on the back of the neck. He submerged. Help. I’ve drowned the Beast Lord.

It was his eyes. When you looked into them, you saw chained violence baring teeth and claws back at you.

You!

I can’t give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you’d set it on fire.

At the door, Audrey called, “Are you coming?””No, just breathing hard, love.” He glanced at her and was rewarded by an outraged glare, followed by, “Oh, my God!

Nothing kills a party like an oversize metal hedgehog.

I don’t want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Would you like to work here with me?We have no clients and the pay is shit.

The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed.”See?” Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. “That’s how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do...

Well, check this out. Mine is bigger.

My father knew he was a bastard. He was the venomous serpent in a bed of roses. Apparently, he didn’t just acknowledge that fact, he beat people over the head with it. All that was...

The woman stared at the ruined body. Blood dripped from her arm. A fine spray of red covered her face –must’ve been cast off when she slammed down the cans. She wiped her face with...

What’s that?””That’s my attack poodle.

Im’s offspring stare at stars and make clocks that calculate useless happenings like the angle of a hawk’s claws as it strikes its prey. They demonstrate their contraptions and everyone marvels. My children get drunk,...

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

I know it’s late, but could you find a book for me? It’s called The Slavs: Study of Pagan Tradition by Osvintsev.”Barabas sighed dramatically. “Kate, you make me despair. Let’s try that again from the...

He groaned and I saw his face. “Curran!” I would’ve preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait…

Whatever storm was brewing, I’d find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.

[…] The alpha-wolf has hurt himself […].” “What happened to the alpha-wolf?””LEGOs.””Legos?” It sounded Greek but I couldn’t recall anything mythological with that name. Wasnt it an island?”He was carrying a load of laundry into...

I have had it up to here with my wedding,” I said. “The other day Andrea tried to explain to me that apparently I am supposed to have a new thing, an old thing, a...

I realized that I’m a child.”William looked point-blank at her chest. “No.

Well, I thought I’d stick them into my nose and impersonate a walrus, but if you insist, I’ll swallow them.

Awesome.

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. “I’m sorry, I must’ve missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me.” from Clean Sweep

May I say that I am delighted that my favorite alpha is feeling better. Why, you’ll be running recklessly into danger against overwhelming odds anytime now.

Kate Daniels, trained negotiator. When in possession of some valuable information, give it away to the first sexy man you see with no guarantee of return.