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e9be974
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The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it.
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Ilona Andrews |
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f85f52a
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Living in your dreams meant bitter disappointment when you woke up.
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Ilona Andrews |
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40a9e04
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What is the connection between you and our handsome host? Aunt B asked. Blackberries taste much worse when they try to come back up your throat. "Uhhh..." "Uhhh is not an answer," Keira informed me. Andre must not have told her about Hugh, and I had no desire to explain who my dad was. "We never met but we were trained by the same person. Now he works for a very powerful man who will kill me if he finds me." "Why?" Keira asked. "It's a fami..
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hugh-d-ambray
keira
forbidden-fruit
kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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783f127
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You call that evening the odds? You demolished them." Demolished. He liked that. "I left you one." "I noticed." "I promised to share," he told her. "Manners are very important in the Weird. Lying would be quite impolite."
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cerise
ilona-andrews
the-edge
william
odds
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Ilona Andrews |
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de9d4e7
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How is it different?" He rolled his head back, sable hair falling down on his shoulders. "With Rose I knew what to say. I could take a step back and talk to her. I remembered all the crap from the magaznies. It was easy." "And with me, it's hard?" Why? Because she was a swamp girl? And how did the magazines fit into it? William looked away from her. "I don't like it when you're away. If I don't see you, I can't settle down. If I see you tal..
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cerise
ilona-andrews
the-edge
pick-up-lines
william
rose
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Ilona Andrews |
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It could be worse," he said finally. "Efrenia married an arsonist. Jake's wife is a kleptomaniac. I suppose, a psychopathic spree killer isn't that odd of a choice, considering."
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cerise
ilona-andrews
the-edge
william
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Ilona Andrews |
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e6093b3
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You will show that thing to me and from now on, I will deal with them." I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me."
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romance
paranormal-romance
urban-fantasy
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Ilona Andrews |
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00a4e8b
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Hugh should've brought a banner with I AM BAD stitched on it in gold.
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Ilona Andrews |
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85690e9
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On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it from an overweight cracker in a fringe shirt.
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gift-horse
ted
magic-bites
ilona-andrews
kate-daniels
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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451ebd1
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No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything...
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Ilona Andrews |
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719172d
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Julie was an issue riding on an issue and using a third issue for a whip.
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Ilona Andrews |
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79f9bb1
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You've been here before?" Derek asked, his gaze firmly fixed on Rowena's ass shifting under the shimmering green silk a few steps above us. "Wiggles," I told him. He blinked, then realized I wasn't referring to Rowena's backside."
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Ilona Andrews |
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c8d6be1
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When a lion stalks a herd, he sneaks in close, lies down, and surveys them to choose his victim. He takes his time. The deer or buffalo have no idea he's near. He finds his prey and then he explodes from his hiding place and grabs it. Even if another, perfectly serviceable animal ends up within his reach, he isn't going to alter his course. He has chosen, and he would rather go hungry than change his mind.
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Ilona Andrews |
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Dali blinked at me. "Would you mind making coffee while you're dancing? I smell it on the bottom shelf, either first or second jar on the left." I opened the first jar and looked inside. Coffee. The label said BORAX. "What's up with the labels?" Dali shrugged. "You're in the house of a cat whose job is to spy. He thinks he's clever. I'd be careful with the silverware drawer. There might be a bomb in it."
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Ilona Andrews |
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f50a88b
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There are only two things that can screw this up for us: you and me." "Then we're doomed for sure." --
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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fd87c28
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I will kill him." "Erra's eyebrows rose. "You'd have to go through me first." I shrugged. "I have to do something for a warm-up." She laughed softly. "That's the spirit. I do think you might be my favorite niece."
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Ilona Andrews |
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Kate? What the hell are you doing here?" "I live here." "Why?" "Because I'm with him now." Dagfinn looked at Curran. "You and her are...?" "She's my mate," Curran said. Dagfinn swung his axe onto his shoulder. The runes sparked with pale green. "Well, how about that? You know what, I don't care, I'll still beat your ass, but I like her so I won't kill you." Curran's eyes turned gold. "Thanks."
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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694cb14
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I raised my foot and deliberately stomped on the bridge. "This is my foot. I put it down. Deal with it."
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Ilona Andrews |
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589c364
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Damn Jeremy, you need to work on your vocabulary. So many good names to call me and the best you could come up with is bitch? Give me the salamander before you hurt yourself." "Suck my dick...whore!"
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Ilona Andrews |
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bc425d5
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Doode," George said. He'd practiced all morning but still didn't get it quite right. "Nope, more , less . Duuude." "Dude." "Dude." "Okay, dude." George nodded. "How's it hanging?" Jack asked. "How am I supposed to answer that?" George looked at him. "I don't think Kaldar said anything about that. I guess 'good'? I don't get it. What's hanging anyway?" George shook his head. "Your stuff, you nimwit." His stuff... "In that case, it's ha..
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funny
perverted
fate-s-edge
ilona-andrews
the-edge
hanging
george
jack
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Ilona Andrews |
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3c752b6
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He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?
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Ilona Andrews |
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c023feb
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Some people had attack dogs. Ghastek had attack lawyers.
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vampires
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Ilona Andrews |
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b707536
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I split the omelet between the plates and stopped when Curran's arms closed about me. He pulled me against him, pressing my back against his chest. I heard him inhale my scent. His lips grazed my temple. Here we were, alone, in my kitchen, holding each other while breakfast cooled on the table. This was some sort of alternate universe, with a different Kate, who wasn't hunted like a wild animal and who could have these sorts of things.
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Ilona Andrews |
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d1539cc
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Don't do this to yourself," he said. "It's a cycle, Kate. We fight for the Pack, they fight for us. We bleed, they bleed. Sometimes people die. Everyone who came with me came of their own free will. The knew where we were going. They all knew there was a good chance that not everybody would make it out. This isn't the first fight or the last. People will sacrifice themselves for us again, and we'll do the same. I don't know how bad the futu..
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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b7f5d91
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Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built into their very core.
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Ilona Andrews |
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9eb295d
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Diplomatic," Barabas said. "Fuck diplomatic."
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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6a9ed56
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It was the kind of place you went when your earthly troubles became too much for you and you were looking for a creative way to commit suicide.
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Ilona Andrews |
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2bd190f
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No matter what happens, you will always be Pack. Because you have that loyalty and restraint. Not human, not whatever, but Kate. Unique and different, but not separate.
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Ilona Andrews |
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65a6a5a
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Kate had never met a person she didn't want to protect, preferably by hacking at the hostile parties with her sword.
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Ilona Andrews |
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a1b2889
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I dived for it, caught it three inches above the cement, and found myself face-to-face with the salamander. Ruby-red eyes regarded me with mild curiosity, black lips parted, and a long, spiderweb-thin filament of a tongue slithered from the salamander's mouth and kissed the sphere's glass in the reflection of my nose. Hi, I love you, too.
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Ilona Andrews |
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ccff4bb
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A rolled-up newspaper landed on my head and then on Jim's. "None of that in my house!" Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper. "Mom!" She pointed at me with the newspaper. "Do not shame me." I clamped my mouth shut. When she pulled out the shame card, it was all over."
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humor
moms
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Ilona Andrews |
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8b37ecd
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He said, 'Yeah, but will I get chicks? In truckloads?
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Ilona Andrews |
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b69d339
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I'm going to find Julie and I'll ground her ass until she forgets what the sun looks like, and then I'll go over to that school and pull their legs out.
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Ilona Andrews |
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748e66d
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I love you, and you're the measure of my wrath. Declan.
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Ilona Andrews |
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64cc1e9
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The stairs ended. I wished I knew the jackass who'd made the staircase so short. I'd throw him down the damn steps so he could count them with his head.
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Ilona Andrews |
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And the next time you choose to project into my dreams, do keep your clothes on." He smiled. It was a very male, self-aware smile, not just sexual but carnal. The predatory look in his eyes turned ravaging. I felt the need to grab a napkin and hold it in front of me like a shield. "I can project, but I would have to be next to you to do it." Oh crap."
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Ilona Andrews |
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993a4b6
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Maybe you should make me a list of people I can kill and ways in which they're allowed to die," he said. "You are not funny." "I'm very funny."
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Ilona Andrews |
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Juke glanced into her cup before tipping it down to her mouth. "Screw you!" "Now come on, sugar, you know I don't swing that way." "Whatever!"
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juke
magic-bleeds
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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ab6bfda
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You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills." Derek's eyebrows crept up. "He can vomit and urinate at the same time and he doesn't make fun of my car."
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Ilona Andrews |
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9a5cf28
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I don't see what the big deal is." "It's a sword made out of your grandmother's bones, Kate." I shrugged."
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Ilona Andrews |
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d11c77e
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You're everything to me," he said into my ear. I wanted to tell him that he was everything to me, that I wouldn't let the darkness have him, that he never had to worry that I would give up and walk away. But the echoes of our shared pleasure stole the words, and so I said it the best I could. "I love you."
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Ilona Andrews |
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45ef174
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An evil light sparked in his eyes. "You could always go for Plan B." "Pound everyone to a bloody pulp until they shut up and cooperate?" "Exactly." -Curran and Kate"
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Ilona Andrews |
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bb51035
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Oh, Gods." His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake."
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bayou-moon
cerise
ilona-andrews
the-edge
william
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Ilona Andrews |
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c51ee90
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You're letting him get to you. You're like a walking mythological encyclopedia, Kate. You pull random mystical crap out of your head and figure out that a giant monster nobody has seen on the face of the planet for three thousand years is allergic to hedgehogs and then you find a cute hedgehog and stab the monster in the eye with it." "Where do you even get this shit?"
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |