If he took her into his arms, he would keep her. He wouldn’t let her suffer the way the other mortals had when he’d left them. He would keep her, with his court’s permission or...

His blue-black hair fell over his face when he moved, like tiny arrows pointing to pronounced cheeckbones. “Starting to think you were going to bail on me.” “Didn’t know you were expecting me,” she said...

Chase away sorrow by living

We are what we are, Nial, neither as good or as evil as others paint us. And what we are doesn’t change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

He pulled something out of his pocket and tried to stick it in her arm. A needle. He’d offered her hope, but then he was trying to hurt her. Poison. She pushed him away. “That...

Catch me, Seth,” she invited.He paused.”Faeries chase,” he said, an then , with a flirtatious smile, he turned away, but before he could take a second step, she was behind him, arms around him, lips...

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

His face was pale, and he dropped to the floor so that he was half kneeling, half sitting before her. “Please. I can…help you.””No.” She wiped her mouth with the back of her hand. Her...

Will you be my forever, Donia?

Discord says it’s a good idea. That’s comforting.

You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her.”Niall turned his gaze to Irial. “What would you do?””Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words.

Can I join you at lunch?” She paused. “You have every other day.” He laughed, a sound as musical as the chiming song of the lupine fey when they ran. “Yes. But you resented it...

He had hopes, but hope wasn’t a solution.

But I want to be near you always,” he reminded her.”But you’ll lose everyone else, and…””I want forever with you.” Seth lifted her chin so he was able to look directly into her eyes. “The...

It’s okay. You’re going to save me, Miss Maylene.” The girl gave her a genuine look of happiness. “I know it. I knew if I found you everything would be okay.

Safe wasn’t quite what appealed to her right then. Safe wasn’t how she felt. Invincible, in control, powerful- those words felt closer to true.

Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.

We can end this before anyone gets hurt.” William held his hands out to sides as if to show her he was unarmed. “You don’t want to hurt people, do you? You will if you...

Talking won’t change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, she just wanted to escape those horrid feelings, to escape herself, so there was no pain, no fear,...

Whatever this fearlessness, this strength, this difference was, she was starting to like it.

I’d stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.

Rejoice as summer should…chase away sorrows by living.

Getting ink felt right, like it would help her put her life in order, to move forwards. It was her body, despite the things that’d been done to it, and she wanted to claim it,...

Sionnach smiled in the way of the falsely modest and added, “Forgive me for not standing, but I can’t find the energy just yet.”the answering heat flare was enough to raise the temperature in the...

I told them he’d be able to get you to go out.” Rianne folded her winnings and tucked the bills into her blazer pocket. “Look at him.””He’s right here, Ri,” Carla murmured, shooting Keenan an...

The time for equivocation has passed. You can stop this at any point by telling me we will rule the court apart from a distance, but until you do so”-he let liquid sunlight drip onto...

The girl’s arms jutted out at awkward angles, not quite hands on the hips belligerent but not relaxed either, as if they weren’t all the way under the girl’s control. “I came to find you.””I...

Life is too short to read books that I’m not enjoying.

We are what we are, neither a good or as bad as others paint us. And what we are doesn’t change how truly we feel, only how free we are to follow those feelings.

Then he kissed her, not just a brush of lips as she’d done, but a kiss a kiss that scalded her tongue. The tree burst into full blooms. The garden fluttered around her. A riot...

By every mortal standard, the worst faeries in the world were those in the Dark Court. They fed on the baser emotions; they engaged in activities that the other-also amoral-faery courts repudiated. They were also...

One hundred eighty days, Aislinn. Seth’s been gone for one hundred eighty days, and I’ve watched you try to pretend it doesn’t hurt for every one of them. Can’t I try to make you happy?

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done.

Keenan was staring at her, too intently for comfort. “I don’t know why certain people shine for others. I don’t know why you and not someone else.” He gently pulled her forward and whispered, “But...

Do you remember those days? Back porch, sunshine, mason jars” – she paused at remembered sweetness – “we were so foolish then…thinking there was a big ol’ world out there to conquer.

She stood in his kitchen, watching him toy with the ring in his lip. It wasn’t quite that he was biting it, but sucking it into his mouth. He did that when he was concentrating....

In the end mortals always expired before faeries. They were such finite creatures. Their first heartbeat and breath were but a blink from death. To add the weight of nourishing his insatiable court in a...