While I don’t want to experience that again, I learned a lot about myself today and about you. And Nick, even. I didn’t know it was possible for me to feel closer to you. I...

As cheesy as this is gonna sound, everyone join hands.”Alex looked from my face to our tangled fingers and smirked. “As much as I like this, I’m thinking now’s not the time to sing ‘Kumbaya’.

I’d rather die on my own terms than live on theirs. I’d rather die loving Alex than live without him.

I was thinking of Lena. Of course. I was always thinking of Lena.

You told me you wanted to marry Seth’s bed, and then you told me you’d marry me if I asked. After that, you started to-“”Enough,” I groaned, wanting to crawl under the blankets.

Persephone smiled. “Caleb and I play Super MArio Kart every day at one, and when he cancelled on me I knew something was up.”I looked at Caleb slowly.

Then he leaned forward and rested his cheek against mine. Hot tingles spread through me as his lips moved against my ear. “You should tell me to stop.” I didn’t say a word.

Something is happening. I sense a change in the wind…a mutual understanding of each other. I haven’t felt this way in forever.

I mean, contrary to popular belief, I’m actually not harboring a secret desire to grow up and become a bioterrorist.

Welcome,” Bell said, not rising from a large wooden chair that had been placed in the center of the room like it was a throne. Would that make him the king of sewer rats?

I know the rules. I’ve been living here longer than you have.”He cracks a smile then. He nudges me back. “Hardly.””Born and raised. You’re a transplant.” I nudge him again, a little harder, and he...

Alex.

I wouldn’t give up being a Sentinel for the world. Or being the Apollyon. I rock.””Wow. You’re so humble.

Well, why didn’t you tell me that to start with? We could have saved a lot of money,” he teased.

The look in his eyes melted me.

When I said I had no choice about helping you, I meant it. There was no other option because you are the only option. I don’t trust anything at the moment. But the one thing...

Civilised my syphilised yarbles.

Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt’s arms. Bengt’s...

She’d known the guy a grand total of five minutes and he’d already left her a sour first impression. The last thing she ought to be doing right now was ogling his six-pack.

Déjame decirte algo sobre morir: no es tan malo como dicen. Es traer de vuelta a la vida partes que hieren.

You know what? Lets go.” I shot Aiden a defiant look. “Come on Seth. Let’s go continue our lovers’ quarrel.””Yes my love, that sounds fantastic. Don’t forget to grab a dagger so you can poke...

That’s not what this is.” I stared at Apollo, but damn, that globe fascinated him. “If there’s going to be a god gunning for my butt -” “It is a nice butt,” Aiden murmured as...

Throwing a sub at the Apollyon probably wasn’t something that should be done in public. But I couldn’t help it; I laughed.

He gave her everything. Everything but the promise of a future. And she met his dark strokes with a plunder of her own, holding his gaze, raking his soul of its secrets. She knew just...

But the fantasy kingdom and trappings of success soon lost their luster, as I discovered that the most prestigious and remunerative of my resume’s way stations was also the most tedious and unfulfilling I had...

As he walked, he knew the bathroom instantly because of the reflective tile floor. Hers would be the last door again. As he took another step forward, he could see a sliver of skin cut...

Kale turned away from me and stepped to Alex. “I know exactly what that means, and if you say it again, I’ll touch you.””Sorry, dude,” Alex said, waving his hands. He flashed Kale a mock...

This is what I want. This is the only thing I’ve ever wanted. Everything else—every single second of every single day that has come before this very moment, this kiss—has meant nothing.

It sounded like the world was ending. But it wasn’t.

Oh, for the love of baby daimons everywhere, I’m ready to start practice.” I pushed up from the chair.

He watched you like a man starved for the only thing that could fulfill his hunger.”My eyes popped out and my body flushed about a thousand shades of red. “Oh, wow…

I feel it in here,” she said, placing her hand against her chest and then against her stomach, “and here. It’s like there’s not enough air or room inside me. That I may… burst out...

Brittany Ellis, I’m goin’ to prove to you I’m the guy you believed in ten months ago, and I’m gonna be the successful man you dreamed I could be. My plan is to ask you...

But then you’d remember him and you’d feel bad for it.

When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her...

It’s probably still there. Thenote, I mean. Probably just a bit of paper pulp by now.

Because I love you. And I hurt you. I hurt the person I love most in the world, and i will never forgive myself.

I blame boobs.

I may be the one leaving, but you’re the one giving up everything and walking away.

Alex grabbed our things from the bike and bought them inside; then he fastened the tent closed, securing us in.”Come here, babe, I’ll keep you warm.

I didn’t steal it,’ I stammered in protest. I had so stolen it.

I was cured all right.

We know that something isn’t right with you and Jace. You’re both too strong, too fast, and Kale—dude, you keep sniffing the wind like a lost puppy that can turn into a Rottweiler at the...

She’s fine,” said Declan, defensive. “You’re fine, right?”She gave him a look. “Peachy.””See? Both Alex and her astounding wit have made it here intact. Her sense of humour seems to be M.I.A, but I’m pretty...

Extiendo la mano y paso un dedo a lo largo de su clavícula, mi lugar favorito: como las siluetas de unas pequeñas alas.

But you’re my cuddle bunny. My little Apollyon cuddle—” I punched him in the side.

And I was normally a pretty emotional person. In any given day, I experienced a hundred different things like I was trying ice cream flavors.

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

He stilled for a moment, savoring the sensation of being buried deep inside her, of filling her, of being joined together in God’s heavenly embrace. He held her gaze and pushed deeper, shuddering with a...

We pick the people who populate our personal lives as much for who they make us as for who they are. I chose Anna for the person I became in her presence, and in this...