The Russians are on the radar. It’s time.”As Bounter turned to pick up the tiny button-size microphone, Grant clenched his hands into fists, his anticipation building.It’s time.

Friendship is the best kind of ship.

Crude. You’re crude, roomie.

We’re screwed.

His voice as smooth as silk, Grant started into his standard crowd-pleaser: Sinatra’s ‘My Kind of Town.

Are you okay in there?” China asked.Lucia glanced at me, and we both cracked up.

Sexy, sexy veggies. You two need to go on lots of dates together.

My dad will win, I silently countered, even as I smiled sweetly. I couldn’t wait to spike the ball right through her block, no matter how tall she was. In health class we’d learned that...

Leo leaned forward and met her soft lips. Their first underwater kiss created bubbles that floated lazily to the surface. Audrey ran her fingers through his coarse hair, and they lingered until his lungs were...

He took it out like a sprinter, and brought it home like a distance swimmer.

Sophie clutched Grant tighter. ‘I don’t know what screwed-up messages from your family are floating around in your head right now, but you’re staying right here.

You’re not like them. You’re my McSailor.”A soft touch made him smile, thinking of Bonnie, before he realized it was Innochka’s hand stroking his face. The touch of a mobster’s girlfriend. He leaped back, still...

You judge, Madsen. Not cool.

Grant glanced down at his khaki jacket. Since he’d slipped on the US Navy uniform in Agent Bounter’s office, he’d felt a confident swagger possess him. His spine lengthened, and his shoulders retracted. He should’ve...

Um, h-h-hi,” Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes like blue shards of glass.

Never dilute vodka. Is sin.

I’m glad I went to prison,” Grant rasped in Sophie’s ear, so quietly only she could hear. “Because then I found you.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

There was no ‘I’ in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

He pulled her toward him and gathered her in his arms as his hand lovingly cradled the back of her neck. She stopped breathing as he leaned down—ohmigod, the Adonis was about to kiss her—and...

Roger said, ‘I don’t know about having a shrink around all the time. Are you analyzing me right now?’Sophie rolled her eyes. ‘How original. No, I’m not analyzing you. It’d take a whole team of...