God bless you.”She let out an ugly hiss between her pearly white teeth. I blew her a kiss and walked out the door. The parking lot was packed outside now that it was half-past midnight....

Vampires aren’t real.

The first thing accomplishes the second, now doesn’t it?

He tasted like summertime – of wicked thunderstorms, fresh clover, and wild honeysuckle – and I had the sensation of falling, my stomach tumbling over and over again until calm finally reached in, rooting deep...

If I didn’t have faith in you, Sarah, I wouldn’t feel this way.

You promised to stop keeping secrets from me, remember?

The cut under his eye and the split skin on his lower lip only enhanced his profile. He didn’t look defeated. He looked like a fighter. A champion.

She’d die before she let that demon touch her again. But maybe that was his plan all along.

Trying to second-guess Tegan was like trying to track a tornado. A tornado he had no business chasing.