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The very second the door closed behind them, Nicholas started shouting. I guess I shouldn't have been surprised. 'I can't believe you did that!' he railed. 'After the field party, the vamps in the garden. Didn't you hear a single word I said?' 'No why don't you yell a little louder?' 'This isn't funny, Lucy.
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He's supposed to look out for you." "I do!" Kieran sounded offended. "You should be proud of her. Hart requested her presence personally at the Drake coronation." I closed my eyes briefly. We were doomed. "You went to a vampire ceremony?" Grandpa asked evenly. "He didn't know?" Kieran asked. "No, he didn't." "Sorry." Grandpa vibrated with rage. "I will not tolerate this kind of behavior in my family!" "It's different now," Kieran tried to a..
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It was a beautiful night, warm and filled with stars and the songs of crickets and frogs. White flowers glowed in the grass. It was a night made for poetry. We should have been kissing. A lot. Instead we were sneaking out of the caves to a blood-soaked clearing where we'd been ambushed not twenty-four hours earlier. Not exactly an ordinary date.
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I bet it's never happened to you." She was right. But that was only because I'd been five years old when Grandpa had started my training. When I'd thought there were monsters under the bed, he taught me how to do a proper sweep to get rid of them."
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Solange looked enthralled, manic. Deadly. So I did the only thing I could think of. I threw a snowball at her head.
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And then Lucy happened. Never mind prophecies and bounty hunters, she was the one who'd really turned my life upside down.... She made everything better. She was necessary.
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He ... loves her. Well, he's crushing on her anyway." I didn't know the term but I understood its meaning well enough. I sighed. "I thought she'd be smarter." He raised his eyebrows. "She's plenty smart." He looked thoughtful. "You don't believe in love then?" "No." I wanted to look away, couldn't. "I don't know."
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logan
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It was the first time I could actually understand the seduction and the allure of baring your throat to a predator. It had always seemed like madness to me, or the result of reading too many novels. It still did. But there was the barest sway of my body toward him. His hair swung out to briefly curtain our faces. There was something in his expression that I couldn't entirely decipher. And then he stepped back abruptly, his familiar smirk er..
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I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.
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Perhaps I won't marry then. Instead, you and I shall live as spinsters in a cottage by the sea. We'll burn our corsets, eat chocolate morning, noon and night and grow fat as hedgehogs.
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marriage
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what happens when all you love, becomes all you hate?
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Lucy said, her nose pressed to the window. "Misunderstanding. No big deal." Solange quirked a half smile. "You might try complete sentences, Lucy." "Can't. Busy." I was curious despite myself. "What are you doing?" "Drooling," Solange explained fondly. "I totally am," Lucy admitted, unrepentant. "Just look at them." Lucy moved over to give me space. She was watching five of the seven Drake boys repairing the outside wall of the farmhouse, u..
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I'd learned long ago you had to block out the rush of regrets that followed the adrenaline dip after a fight. Otherwise the loop of thoughts could pull you under. Did you just kill someone? Or was it a monster, plain and simple? Did that make you a monster? Was it murder if you were defending yourself? Was it a war and were we just soldiers trying to survive? I preferred the adrenaline rush. (Quinn)
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I have to console myself with the hope that I'd seen Isabeau soften, even hesitate, as if she might actually have taken my arm. It was suddenly very easy to picture her in a gown with petticoats and ringlets in her hair and diamonds at her throat. It was just as easy to picture Magda with horns and pitchfork." - Logan, page 95"
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When Kieran nudged me awake, I tried to punch him. "Lucy--shit!" He ducked, smashing his head on the window. I blinked blearily. "Sorry, Kier. Habbit." He rubbed the back of his head. "Between you and Hunter, it's a wonder I have all of my limbs still intact." I snorted, rubbing my eyes. "You dosed me with Hypnos." "Three months ago. Let it go, Hamilton." I just grinned sleepily. "You have so much to learn."
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The Drake farmhouse was like the chimpanzee enclosure at the zoo when feeding time was late. You know, if all the chimpanzees were undead. And insane.
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He kissed me as if we had all the time in the world, as if it weren't cold outside, as if winter weren't coming, or the dawn, or any of the dangers that waited for us outside this field. I kissed him back as if he were right, as if there were only the two of us, as if the only worry we had were my curfew.
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With her long dark hair and green eyes, she was pretty as a doll. You know, the kind of doll that came to life at night to kill monsters.
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My brothers are idiots. Anyone can see that under the scars and the attitude, Isabeau is more fragile than she looks. And as a reclusive Hound princess, her first introduction to the royal family shouldn't be a dose of Hypnos and four idiots gawking at her. If I'd managed not to gawk, they sure as hell could have. She was beautiful, fierce, and utterly unlike anyone I'd ever known. It was really hard not to gawk. Much better to pace outside..
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Where's Quinn?' "He went around the other side." Connor replied. Stealth mode." A war whoop and a mocking laugh belied that comment. Hunter sighed. 'He's across the street, being a lunatic, you mean.' "That's stealth mode for him."
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funny
stealth-mode
hunter
quinn
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I tried not to look as if I was hiding a handsome young lad under the mattress.
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It's weird, isn't it?" "What is?" "Treaties and all that. It's like we woke up one morning and we weren't supposed to be enemies anymore. It'll take some getting used to." "True," I said. "I think it's really cool though." "Unfortunately, not everyone agrees." I thought of my grandfather and what he would do if he could see me now. "I know. But it's worth protecting." "Yes," he said, and something about the way he was looking at me made me ..
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How did you know it wasn't really me?" "Are you kidding? Your eyeballs could be on fire and you wouldn't bat your lashes at me like that."
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What got you through?" I whispered. "Do you remember?" "You. You got me through."
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I closed my eyes, wondering why it was no effort at all to call up the exact shade of his dark eyes, hostile as they were. I should be thinking about the bounty on our heads, not whether or not I'd get to see him again. Because of course I'd get to see him again; he'd probably try and stake one of my brothers, if not me. Hardly a promising start to a relationship. Relationship? What the hell was I thinking? No doubt my impending birthday wa..
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It would have been perfect if my grandfather hadn't interrupted us.
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And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake." She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt." I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks."
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lucy
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I hadn't had a chance to read an entire novel in weeks. Whatever the others might say about politics, civil war, and hunters, the real evil was lack of reading time. If they all read more they might freak out less. And if I was going to live forever I was going to have to start a reading list.
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You're our best hope." "If you call me Obi-Wan I'm going to kick you." He grinned. "Hot. say Obi-Wan again." I laughed, shoving his shoulder. "Shut up."
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I knew damn well if Lucy broke up with me I'd still love her until I turned to dust.
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If I'd been ten years old again I'd have stuck my tongue out at Caroline. At sixteen, I ought to be above such behavior. I wasn't.
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What is it?' I whispered. 'What's wrong?' 'Everything but you,' he said hoarsely.
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The Drake's didn't lure drunk college students out of the bars and compel them to forget being fed on. Well, maybe Quinn used to, but I could guarantee none of those girls needed to be compelled.
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Mother was delicate the way badgers were delicate.
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I could see the widening of his pupils, and the pale blue fire of his irises. He'd told me my eyes would change too, would go lighter until they looked like amber. I couldn't imagine they'd be half as beautiful as his. He was gentle and self-deprecating and way tougher than people gave him credit for. And twin or not, he was even hotter than Quinn, in my humble opinion.
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The one time I tried to get her to watch Pride and Prejudice, she hadn't been able to sit still. Granted, it was the six-hour version, but come on. What's not to love?
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Yeah.You got me through
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love
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I blinked at him. "What does salt have to do with any of this?" "It protects you from evil." "Salt?" Disbelief all but dripped from my voice. I couldn't help it. "Table salt? How is seasoning myself going to help? This isn't a dinner party."
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Alyxandra Harvey |
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It wasn't my most fashionable dress, but anyone who called for me at nine o-clock in the bloody morning would have to take what he was given.
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Alyxandra Harvey |
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Why couldn't we just lose ourselves in the fire again? When passion was enough, and the questions didn't matter.
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That's good," Hunter said, panting. "Keep grinning at your attacker like that and they'll think you're way creepy. And mental." I grinned wider. "I totally love this. Who can I punch next?"
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kick-ass
hunter
lucy
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Stop hiding condoms in my stuff. It's like some twisted Easter egg hunt in there.
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funny
over-protective
lucy
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I would never believe that I was better off without the Drakes and they without me. Growing up, I'd seen them more often than my own grandparents. They were part of my landscape. And if that particular landscape suddenly included earthquakes and volcanoes and mudslides, then too bad; I already built a house there and dug the well and planted crops. It was an analogy my parents had to understand. They were homesteaders; they knew that once y..
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Alyxandra Harvey |
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Could one write a strongly worded letter to the deceased requiring their full cooperation?
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