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He pulled out at the last minute, rising above her, his shoulders blocking the spray of the shower. Grabbing his erection, he was even more brutal with himself than he had been with her, yanking at his sex, making himself come. So that he covered her. It was the marking of a bonded male, a practice done so that any other male in her presence would be fully warned that if he approached her, he had best beware. She was another's. Not as prope..
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Needless to say he had a newfound respect for that blind vampire. There were very few things iAm hadn't been able to move in his adult life. He'd changed a tire while acting as his own tire iron. Had been known to walk vats of sauce big as washing machines around a kitchen. Hell, he'd even actually relocated a washer and dryer without thinking much about it. And then he'd had to lift that truck off his brother about two years ago. Ano..
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Ivie lowered her coffee cup onto its saucer. "You would do that? I mean, Silas, seriously, these are not your peeps. My dad has tattoos and a Harley. He and my mahmen live in a prefab house out on a farm, and eat their own chickens. We're talking beer out of a can, a store-bought cake, and hunting dogs running around under the table"
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She was a mahmen. She was a lover. She was a proud female, a strong female, a female who knew right from wrong, family from stranger, good from evil. She had lived through two birthings and stood up to a Brother just now, and she would take on the King if she had to. She was fallible and could get confused and might well flounder from time to time. But she would survive. That was what the strong did.
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c47fa07
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A bilo je to itekako drazesno, smatrala je Mary. Nekako je humanije, promatrati razlicite rukopise, razlicite tinte, razlicite nacine na koje bi netko nekad nesto krivo napisao. Bio je to vizualni ekvivalent razgovora, svatko bi u zapisu ostavio nesto sebi svojstveno, unikatno - za razliku od unosa uvijek istih, provjerenih natipkanih rijeci. Medutim, to je donekle otezavalo trazenje neke odredene biljeske ili napomene. S druge strane, isci..
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5fb87d1
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The conviction was as solid as the bones beneath her skin: Even the powerful needed protection sometimes.
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a8ed810
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God does not give us more than we can handle.
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9f2e9a4
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Try the tenderloin. It's fucking awesome. And the lamb, too. Oh, and the mashed potatoes. Skip the salad. Waste of chewing.
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That was the thing about life. Habit and routine made things feel permanent, but that was all an illusion based on the very flimsy foundation of repetition. Change and chaos was a far better bet to put your faith in. At least you would never be surprised when things went tits up.
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life
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882d239
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He got up out of bed, walked across the room, and put his glowing hand to her face with hesitation. On a sigh she leaned into the imprint of his palm and the warmth of his flesh. "Is this you?" he said hoarsely. She nodded and reached out to his cheeks, which were a little red. "You've been crying." He captured her hand. "I feel you." "Me, too." He touched her neck, her shoulder, her sternum. Brought her arm forward and looked at it...w..
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Indeed, this was the problem with lying to intimates, he thought. The untruths always came home to roost and never in a way that justified the falsity, however small or large it had been. Because, in fact, there was never a justification to lie to someone who loved you.
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34d06a2
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Well, hello, beautiful ... You are a sight for sore eyes.
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0b68b88
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I'm coming back at the end of the night. Be naked." "Wouldn't you rather undress me?" "No, because I'd shred that shirt, and I want you sleeping in it every night until you're in my bed with me. Be. Naked." "We'll see." His whole body throbbed at the disobedience. And she knew it, her stare level and erotic. "God, I love you," he said."
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He's doing very well. He ate something and now he's resting." "What did he have?" Like he was her kid or something. "That ginger and rice--" "Roast beef." "Oh, that's great! A serving or two of that can help his iron counts." "It wasn't just a serving. He had a whole roast beef. As in . . . a bone-in, standing prime rib roast. I believe they said it weighed sixteen pounds." Sarah blinked. "Jeez, what was dessert--an entire pie?" "Vanilla ic..
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He and that woman were probably going to have to cross paths again. She was about to have a big problem in her life,
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f7c6c40
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In the Old Language, he whispered, "I am barren of words, my female. For no sounds from my mouth are worthy of your hearing."
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8d16190
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If you eliminated all possible explanations, then the impossible is the answer.
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3a819db
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I've missed you," he blurted. "More than I've wanted to admit--and now that you're here with me, I can't figure out why I worked so fucking hard to avoid telling you that."
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ca67c28
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Life was too short, no matter how long you lived.
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cf1f99c
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After a moment, he dropped his head and started to kiss her again, and she kissed him right back, giving him everything she had, trying to reassure him not just about his own injury, but the very future of the race. Which was maybe nuts. But sometimes that was all you could do--just pour your hope and love into your partner because they needed the support, even though it arguably wasn't going to change or improve what was really going on.
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Yet she was still alive and she was here. Looking at herself in the mirror. And for the first time in her life, she respected what she saw. Bowing to her reflection, she said softly, "Pleased to meet you."
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He was stronger and tougher--and she had to believe, even if it went against every core principle she personally had, that his single-minded, unwavering commitment to himself was going to see him through this better than her compassionate interest in others. Weight carried, whether it was physically, mentally, or emotionally, slowed you down.
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Being female was not a disability in any sense of the word. But he had treated it as such, hadn't he. He had decided that because she was not male, in spite of all her qualifications and skills, she couldn't go out into conflict. As if breasts suddenly made shit more dangerous.
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If you looked for validation from other people, by definition they could take that away if they chose. The safest path, as always, was to be your own rock, your own harbor, your own shelter. Am I okay? should only ever be answered by the person asking that question.
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Sure enough, all of the Brotherhood was milling around and arming themselves like they were about to head off to find his sorry ass before dawn made shit too late. All eyes swung toward him, and as he saw the surprise and shock on those familiar faces, a load of aw-shucks hit him hard. To cover that up, he gave 'em a sly grin. "I'm back, bitches--miss us?" --
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d5c145c
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Beneath the wardrobe of a gentlemale, he had the soul of vengeance and not just a little street in him.
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She looked into the room. So many machines and wires and tubes - a reminder that the human body was an incredible miracle, its countless autonomic functions a gift when they were operating as intended, and a cumbersome nightmare to have to approximate when they were not.
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human-body
medical-care
health
hospital
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Butch came around in front, twisting the shirt he'd taken off into a rope. Thanks to all the lifting they'd been doing, the male's chest and arm muscles were thickening up, and he hadn't been small to begin with. He couldn't pull the kind of iron Rhage did, but for a human, the guy was a bulldozer. "You're getting into some kind of shape, cop." "Aw, come on, now." Butch grinned. "Don't let that shower we took go to your head."
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Saxton glanced at Ruhn. The male was likewise examining the portrait, and for some reason, whatever opinion he was forming seemed terribly important. Did he find her attractive? Did he want to meet her? As an unattached male, with an invitation from the head of the household, it would not be inappropriate for him to engage in a supervised meeting. He was not an aristocrat, and neither were Minnie and her clan, but there were still rules of ..
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She loved him even more than she had this morning, though less than she would tomorrow.
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the future was unknown and unknowable. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
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True enough. I say this all the time. Trez looked at his hands. "I didn't ask for this." "No one asks for life." The executioner hiked iAm's body up higher. "And sometimes they do not ask for death..."
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life-and-living
life
life-quote
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As Vishous seemed to find a partner in surly crime with Rhamp, Qhuinn found himself staring at the brother. For a lot of reasons. One,
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And she wanted the monster in him. The unleashed. The crazed. Against everything that made any kind of sense, she wanted him to devour her, master her, take her down onto the hard floor right here, right now, and pin her under his naked, pumping body until she had no thoughts of who or even what he was. Who or even what she herself was. "Wipe me clean," she heard herself say against his mouth. "Take everything away for me until I know only ..
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Oh, please--" "Shut up and let me finish!" Z's mouth dropped open, sure as if she'd booted him in the ass. No one ever took that tone of voice with him. The anomaly alone would have gotten his attention, but the fact that it was her stunned him out."
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I want to meet you in person." "Sorry, I'm not into dating." "Yeah, I can imagine with that face of yours you don't have much luck there. But I don't want you for sex." "I'm so relieved. Now who the fuck are you?"
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Zsadist blinked a couple of times. What the hell just happened? He looked around the room as if the furniture or maybe the drapes could help him out. Then his acute hearing tuned in to a quiet sound. She was...crying. With a curse he went over to the bathroom. He didn't knock, just turned the knob and went inside. She was standing next to the shower, arms crossed, tears pooling in her sapphire eyes. Oh...God. What was a male supposed to do ..
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I'm not a man, Mary, even though parts of me look like one. What you just had is nothing compared to what I want to do to you. I want my head between your legs so I can lick you until you scream my name. Then I want to mount you like an animal and look into your eyes as I come inside of you. And after that? I want to take you every way there is. I want to do you from behind. I want to screw you standing up, against the wall. I want you to s..
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The brain has a way of confirming its own hypotheses. It's how we function in our world. That which fits within our definition and perspective of our existence is retained, if not amplified. That which does not is either rationalized or cast aside until an event so great or profound occurs that we must rethink everything.
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539a1c7
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I fell in love with one. And he fell in love with me." And then I died and his mother brought me back to life--it's great to have demigods as in-laws."
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f1d2924
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Stop thinking of me as broken or not whole. Put that bullshit down and walk away. It's not doing you any good and it's insulting to me.
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broken
anne-ashburn
disability
strength-through-adversity
insulting
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f5c8b6f
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She lifted the cup to her lips. "You make good coffee." "You haven't tasted it yet." "I can smell it. And I love the way it smells." It's not the coffee, he thought. Not all of it, at any rate. "Well, I love your perfume," he said, because he was a dolt. She frowned. "I'm not wearing any. I mean, other than the soap and shampoo I use." "Well, I like them, then. And I'm glad you stayed." "Is this what you planned?" Their eyes met. Sh..
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not-just-anyone
date
coffee
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1791fcf
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Sometimes life brought you to corners that you saw coming, big changes altering your direction and focus thanks to a given event, like a mating or the birth of a young. Other times, though, the glacial shifts came without warning, popping out of nowhere.
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Because in all of his adult life he'd been through the full gamut of emotions . . . and he'd never once felt like this. Whole. Complete. At peace. "Holly, you are so much more than I thought you were," he whispered, brushing her cheek. As those lovely eyes of hers grew watery, she said, "And you've turned out to be everything I wished you'd be." "Well, hasn't this been the show of a lifetime, then?" He kissed her slowly. "And I have the per..
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