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His dark gaze searched her face. "Aren't you curious, inspector? A kiss--and only a kiss." Only a kiss . . . from someone who wanted her. Longing slipped through her, tugging at hopes best kept buried. Yes, Mina wanted to know. But she couldn't afford it. "No," she said. He smiled. "Liar."
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There was much more she would have liked to tell her brother. But within a few months, she would be able to tell him in person. When he learned of the attack on the airship, nothing would stop Archimedes and his wife from coming. But at least they would fly to the Red City instead of Krakentown, where he might be recognized as the smuggler Wolfram Gunther-Baptiste. One day, she might write a story inspired by that part of his career. She wo..
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Perhaps drugging the woman he intended to fall in love with wasn't the accepted method of kindling a passionate romance, yet Archimedes considered it the most sensible way to proceed.
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Meljean Brook |
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0f43201
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My sister once warned me that a man who blushed so easily was probably a
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Meljean Brook |
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5d52ba8
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Families aren't always blood. You make your own.
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Meljean Brook |
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That was unbelievably presumptuous," she said in astonished wonder. "I should be furious. But it was so well done. I have shivers all over."
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Meljean Brook |
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He couldn't prevent her from feeling any pain, but he could stand beside her through it.
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iron
meljean
seas
tethered
series
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Meljean Brook |
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every man had a choice: feed that which makes you happy, or feed that which makes you rage.
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Meljean Brook |
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And while we are living, we receive no punishment but what we put on each other or that we make for ourselves
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Meljean Brook |
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You've made vampire spiders?" Now it was her turn to wonder if her was serious. He should know that was't a possibility. "They don't transform, just as animals and insects don't if they drink vampire blood" "Can you imagine vampire mosquitoes? Or immortal, blood-sucking ants who make you feel all sexy when they bite"
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Meljean Brook |
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If ever you need it, I will level mountains to give you a desk. Even if an army is at our door, I'll hold them off until your ink runs dry.
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Meljean Brook |
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As you have likely guessed, I have been kidnapped again--but at least my abductors do not want gold this time. It's somewhat flattering that my worth is equal to the worth of a giant war machine that could change the course of history. Whether that ransom will be paid is another question entirely.
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Meljean Brook |
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I never have a blade--but the only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over.
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Meljean Brook |
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Every word I say. Everything I do. You may take it as encouragement,
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Meljean Brook |
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She'd never thought of it as a colony. Instead it had been invaded, occupied, enslaved. She supposed colonized was more palatable to those who'd done it.
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Meljean Brook |
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And even though she could remember most of the sentences and every plot point, the story would never be what it had been. She would never again be who she'd been.
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Meljean Brook |
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Ariq's fingers caught in her hair, tugged her close. "This is why," he said roughly againstwhy I wanted you from almost the moment I pulled you from the water. The way you think. You're like an arrow." And sometimes a squirrel, scampering this way and that, wildly collecting nuts. her lips. "This is" --
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zenobia-fox
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Meljean Brook |
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You said that if I ever lost a finger, I'd cry like a baby. But I didn't. I cried like a man.
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Meljean Brook |
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No siege engine could equal the destructive power of Zenobia sitting so close.
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Meljean Brook |
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This was part of love, to suffer. He'd planned to do it in silence, to experience the beautiful agony of the great romantics. Faced with it, however, beautiful agony was shit.
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Meljean Brook |
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Mara gave you my letter?" "Yes." "You must have been astonished." She had exposed her heart in that letter. His eyebrows shot up. "'Astonished' is a mild word for it." "But you came - so you must have read the other letters. They should have prepared you a little." "I received no other letters. I had no idea you were in this part of the world." She shook her head in confusion. "Then how did you know to come?" "Yasmeen and I were in New Eden..
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Meljean Brook |
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If Helene was with child, either Basile Auger had astonishing ejaculatory capabilities, impregnating her from halfway around the world, or she'd lain with another man.
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Meljean Brook |
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If he learned how susceptible I am to men who bathe more than once every year, he would have leapt into a tub that very moment, and my heart would be in certain danger. But he hasn't washed, so I will continue on to the Red City and live with the regret of knowing that happiness was within my reach, but the soap was unfortunately not.
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Meljean Brook |
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the only weapon I bring to a conversation is a knife. A gun means the talking is over.
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Meljean Brook |
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But disbelief wasn't enough to wound someone. Disbelief only hurt when someone wanted to believe.
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Meljean Brook |
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Freedom is having a choice to make, to be who we want to be.
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Meljean Brook |
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But she would not think better of him just because he possessed the decency not to blackmail her. Refusing to take advantage of a woman should be a basic part of any man's character, and lauding him for it would be like commending someone for having lungs to breathe with.
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Meljean Brook |
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Stories were so easy to control. Lady Lynx escaped because Zenobia created an escapable situation, and if anything unexpected happened to her characters, Zenobia had a clever plan to get them out of their new fix.
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Meljean Brook |
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The blacksmith has proved quite competent while treating Cooper, and he possesses a great many tools in his workshop. If he learned how susceptible I am to men who bathe more than once every year, he would have leapt into a tub that very moment, and my heart would be in certain danger. But he hasn't washed, so I will continue on to the Red City and live with the regret of knowing that happiness was within my reach, but the soap was unfortun..
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Meljean Brook |
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Ariq's fingers caught in her hair, tugged her close. "This is why," he said roughly against her lips. "This is why I wanted you from almost the moment I pulled you from the water. The way you think. You're like an arrow." And sometimes a squirrel, scampering this way and that, wildly collecting nuts."
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zenonia-fox
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Meljean Brook |
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Ghostly terror, green eyes like rocks; ugly and gullible, Zenobia Fox!
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Meljean Brook |
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This night would have been so much more pleasant
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Meljean Brook |
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This night would have been so much more pleasant if all the men had stopped talking.
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Meljean Brook |
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He wanted her for the rest of his life. And on his dying breath, he would still want another second with her, another hour, another lifetime.
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love
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Meljean Brook |
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In the quarantine tower he'd done to her what he'd sworn never to do with the machine: justify the route he'd taken with the result he hoped to achieve.
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Meljean Brook |
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I think the difference is not in the man, but how many stand behind him. I think that change will truly come when their combined fists are bigger than a single mighty one.
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Meljean Brook |
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His mother had taught him exactly that: To do what must be done. But she had taught him to do it while having a heart. Not heartlessly.
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Meljean Brook |
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But there exists not one man who never errs. We would be gods." And gods didn't apologize. Men did."
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Meljean Brook |
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Won without a drop of bloodshed. His mother had been right. That truly was the best victory.
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Meljean Brook |
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The captain shook her head - not in disagreement, but wonder. She glanced at Ariq. "We'll do this all for free if you let us see inside that thing."
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Meljean Brook |
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They were fed flaky pastries filled with beef and spices, a peppery stew over couscous, breads stuffed with honey and almonds.
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Meljean Brook |
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633d99b
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They gaped as if they'd never seen a ridiculously handsome bleeding man in a turquoise waistcoat fall through a rubbish hole and then save himself with a grappling hook before. What DID they do for fun in New Eden?
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Meljean Brook |
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Yes. My mother, for one. As a child I loved her, despite knowing so little about her. But now, knowing everything she has done, how stubborn she can be, how blind, how strong, how clever...knowing her as a woman, I love her so much more.
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Meljean Brook |
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I think I couldn't love him at all if he was the sort of man to make me choose between him and my writing." And"
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Meljean Brook |