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cb7c6a8
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I love you," I told him. There. Nice and simple. "I knew you would find me." He smiled at me. "I would never stop looking."
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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af7efdf
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He glued the chair to my ass." Silence. "Is it still...attached?" "I can't get it off."
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magic-bleeds
ilona-andrews
curran
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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8d8354f
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Don't worry, he's coming with me to investigate things." "In the city?" Jim asked. "Yes." "That's a great idea. You both should go. To the city." Curran and I looked at each other. "He's trying to get rid of us," I said. "You think he's planning a coup?" Curran wondered. "I hope so." I turned to Jim. "Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic Consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation," Curran said. Jim leaned ..
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kate
jim
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Ilona Andrews |
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adc8cf4
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I see. Is Jim with you now?" "Yes, he is. We're having rough sex. You're interrupting. "What are you doing here?" "Looking for Jim in your bed." "He isn't here." "I see that."
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Ilona Andrews |
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ea0d7a4
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Curran, please don't bite his head off." "Why?" "Because it's illegal. Technically you assaulted him first when you threw him across the lawn." "I didn't throw him very far." I rolled my eyes. "I could've thrown him straight up and let him land on the pavement." "That would also be illegal." "You keep bringing this 'illegal' thing up as if it means something to me."
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Ilona Andrews |
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3a1ceeb
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Any messages for me?" Usually I got one or two, but mostly people who wanted my help preferred to talk in person. "Yes. Hold on." She pulled out a handful of pink tickets and recited from memory, without checking the paper. "Seven forty-two a.m., Mr. Gasparian: I curse you. I curse your arms so they wither and die and fall off your body. I curse your eyeballs to explode. I curse your feet to swell until blue. I curse your spine to crack. I ..
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maxine
magic-bleeds
ilona-andrews
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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4eff87f
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Where were you? What happened?" I carved a chunk out of another lizard's face. "I just took the kids to fight some ghouls," Curran said. Oh, so it was fine, then . . . Wait. "You did what?" He kicked a lizard. It flew into the others like a cannonball. "I called Jim before we left the house to talk about ghouls, and he said they found some in the MARTA tunnels. So I grabbed the kids and did a little hunting." I would kill him. "Just so ..
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Ilona Andrews |
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Where were you? What happened?" I carved a chunk out of another lizard's face. "I just took the kids to fight some ghouls," Curran said. Oh, so it was fine, then . . . Wait. "You did what?" He kicked a lizard. It flew into the others like a cannonball. "I called Jim before we left the house to talk about ghouls, and he said they found some in the MARTA tunnels. So I grabbed the kids and did a little hunting." I would kill him. "Just so ..
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Ilona Andrews |
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cd0ea55
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He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," he told me."
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Ilona Andrews |
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f3e197a
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Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.
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kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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5db55fa
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Now that was a kiss," Grandma Frida said from the doorway behind me. I jumped. "How long have you been there?" "Long enough. That man means business." All my words tried to come out at once. "I don't . . . what . . . asshole! . . . screw himself for all I care!" "Aww, young love, so passionate," Grandma said. "I'm going to buy you a subscription to Brides magazine. You should start shopping for dresses."
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nevada-baylor
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Ilona Andrews |
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6f5a1ae
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We can do subtle," I assured her. "It's our middle name," Andrea added. For some odd reason Rene didn't look convinced."
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rene
kate
subtlety
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Ilona Andrews |
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e0bcd9e
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Someone pounded on the office door. Barabas moved to the door, slid aside the metal shutter covering the narrow spy window, and looked through it."It's your lover man." "Barabas, open the damn door," Raphael snarled. Barabas slid the shutter closed. "Do you want me to let him in?" "I'm thinking about it." Barabas slid the shutter open. "She's thinking about it."
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Ilona Andrews |
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21e7a33
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Landon paced back and forth, his eyes a little wild. ''Well, he took it worse than I did,'' Curran said. ''I don't see what the big deal is.'' ''It's a sword made out of your grandmothers bones, Kate.'' I shrugged Landon stared at me through the windshield, turned around, paced back and forth, and stared at me again
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kate
sword
landon
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Ilona Andrews |
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cbe11d4
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Now Julie could stay here, in the Keep full of homicidal maniacs who grew teeth the size of switchblades and erupted into a violent frenzy when threatened.
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Ilona Andrews |
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aab2527
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I'm an angel of death. I don't need night school, woman. You should just give up on this detective shit and start killing people for a living. It's simple, honest work, and you ain't got the brains for anything else.
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Ilona Andrews |
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b2eca0f
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You don't return your phone calls." The vampire leaned forward, tapping my doodle with a scimitar claw. "Is that a lion with horns and a pitchfork?" "Yep." "Is he carrying the moon on his pitchfork?" "No, it's a pie. What can I do for Atlanta's premier Master of the Dead?"
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Ilona Andrews |
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d243901
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I don't know if you heard, but I kind of run this place.
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Ilona Andrews |
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f61f9d5
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What do you think?" he asked, his voice deep and commanding. I eyed him. "Impressive, but too much." He leaned toward me, the blue eyes smoky with a promise I was shure he could fulfill. I tried not to think of the bedroom. "Too much?" "Yes. I like the menace. It's very masculine, but he looks like he would screw everything in sight and call me 'wench"
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saiman
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Ilona Andrews |
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a6971ab
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If you come back to me, I'll never leave you", I whispered into the furry ear. "I'll make you all the pies you could ever eat."
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Ilona Andrews |
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b08904d
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One of my cousins is named Lucifer. I once asked my aunt why and she said, "Because I wanted him to be beautiful and to think for himself."
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Ilona Andrews |
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ccf9ffa
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When you walk a dog on a short leash, she's close enough to bite you.
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Ilona Andrews |
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86bc4b4
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The only people who can have normal are the ones unaffected by all the fucked-up shit that happens around them." - Curran"
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Ilona Andrews |
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2f0f638
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What are your qualifications for this job?" she asked. "I'm expendable," I said."
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Ilona Andrews |
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eaa5753
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On a scale from one to ten, the Pack was eleven and everything else a one.
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Ilona Andrews |
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590ef33
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Can you turn so you're not pressed against me?" "I could," he said, his voice amused. "But then you would have to lie on top of me." My brain said, "NO." My body went, "Wheee!"
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nevada-baylor
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Ilona Andrews |
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55294bf
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If I pass out face down in this water, will you fish me out?" "Will you promise to call me Your Majesty?" "Hell no." "Then I'll have to think about it."
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kate-to-curran
kate-daniels
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Ilona Andrews |
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453d85d
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What kind of shapeshifter has orange fur anyway?" "Weredingo." Now I'd seen everything. Well, at least he didn't steal my baby."
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Ilona Andrews |
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af6b6a7
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Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows. "We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. "So he doesn't eat dog brains." --
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grandpa-cletus
on-the-edge
ilona-andrews
jack
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Ilona Andrews |
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11e41ff
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How are you?" "Perfectly fine," he said. "Are your ribs broken?" "Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully." "Did this settle anything?" "It made me feel better," he said, sitting up. "Did you see me kick him in the kidneys?" "I saw."
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on-the-edge
ilona-andrews
rose
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Ilona Andrews |
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a46c021
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I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him." Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. "And?" "You're the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well."
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saiman
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Ilona Andrews |
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4ff35ba
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Humans tend to segregate the world: enemies on one side, friends on the other. Friends are people we know. Enemies are the Other. You can do just about anything to the Other. It doesn't matter if this Other is actually guilty of any crimes, because it's a matter of emotion, not logic. You see, angry people aren't interested in justice. they just want an excuse to vent their rage. And once you become their Other, you're no longer a person. Y..
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Ilona Andrews |
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6accc51
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He came for me. I couldn't believe it. . Into a flying palace full of thousands of armed rakshasas in the middle of a magic jungle. . What was the God damn point of saving him only to watch him throw his life away? Kate for Curran
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Ilona Andrews |
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0291923
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You're a prickly, stubborn, spirited woman." "Don't forget crude, rude, and vulgar." "Only when it suits you. You're sly when occasion calls for it, direct to the point of forgetting tact even exists, sarcastic, fierce, I did mention stubborn, didn't I?" "Yes," she said dryly. "You're also smart, kind, gentle, beautiful, and always cling to your personal integrity, even when it's in your best interests to abandon it." A little warm feeling ..
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rose
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Ilona Andrews |
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24c0cb5
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I have to say, your technique is really different. Curran hammered at the spell until it broke. You just talk. Help me out here, what's the strategy? Are you hoping the ward will get tired and kill itself so it won't have to listen to you anymore?
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goading
hugh
wards
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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d1aa285
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Jack didn't fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn't comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus' necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn't stop laughing and had to sit down.
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jesus
religion
humor
necromancer
joke
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Ilona Andrews |
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a79bb4d
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Derek, you just don't say things like that to a woman. Keep going this way and you'll spend your life alone." "Don't change the subject. Andrea is cool. And she smells nice. It will be okay." Apparently I was supposed to sniff people to determine their competence. "How do you know?" He shrugged. "You just have to trust her."
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derek
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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8c5639d
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Kate, perhaps you need to explain to your significant other that he is in no position to give me orders. Last time I checked, his title was Beast Lord, which is a gentle euphemism for a man who strips nude at night and runs around through the woods hunting small woodland creatures. I'm a premier Master of the Dead. I will go where I please.
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Ilona Andrews |
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eecfdcd
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I raged across the field, killing all before me. They ran when they saw me coming, and I chased them down, and killed them before they could take someone else's friend away from them.
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Ilona Andrews |
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9a82542
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I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to." I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'll meet you halfway."
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Ilona Andrews |
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bd5455c
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Minutes passed by. A little blue butterfly landed on my nose. I blinked at it and it fluttered to my ear. A big yellow butterfly gently floated over and landed on my paw. Soon a whole swarm of them floated up and down around me, like a swirl of multicolored petals. It happened in my backyard, too, if the magic was strong enough. Butterflies were small and light, and very magic sensitive. For some reason I made them feel safe and they gravit..
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funny
white-tiger
dali
shapeshifter
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Ilona Andrews |
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1a4238f
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Nice plan. Take the gullible outsiders, walk them around for a bit, then feed them to the giant tortoise.
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tortoise
magic-burns
kate-daniels
kate
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Ilona Andrews |
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4c5c396
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I have a family full of quirky people. Someone has to be sensible so all of you can enjoy being reckless weirdos.
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Ilona Andrews |
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b4623c6
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Try to look casual." I pulled the top book out and put it on the desk. "Why?" "Because what I'm doing is illegal without a warrant, and we have about twenty witnesses observing our every move." Curran crossed his arms, making his biceps bulge, leaned against the desk, and fixed our audience with his stare. Everyone spontaneously decided to look anywhere else but at us. Right. Casual, my foot. "See," he said. "No witnesses."
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Ilona Andrews |