Z: “You know, this was a hell of a lot easier when you were out cold in the back of that truck.”Phury: “That was you?”Z:”You think it was Santa Claus or some shit?

Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and bitch slap someone.

The heavy soul will not pass though the body is failing.

Good? No, that didn’t go far enough. She’d made him feel… alive. Awakened.

Look upon me, Mistress. Watch as I wither!

When her blue-black eyes lifted to his, everything disappeared. Their bodies dematerialized. The room they were in ceased to exist. Time became nothing. And in the void, in the wormhold, Wrath’s chest opened up sure...

Listen, I don’t want things to get weird, okay.””Oh, yeah, no, weird is bad.””But just so you and I are clear, I really fucking want to kiss you right now.

I love you.”Z squeezed his eyes shut. “Don’t be a tragedy, Bella.