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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| e25373c | I know you don't want to feel superior, but it is so easy to control us." He snorted his disagreement. "I have failed to control you at every turn. You have no idea how often I wanted to force your obedience when you placed yourself in danger. I should have gone with my instincts...but no, I allowed you to go back to the inn." "Your love for me caused you to pull back." She reached out to touch his hair. "Isn't that how it should be between.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5e2acca | We are uniting two worlds. If we decide to have a child..." He stirred restlessly, his dark eyes glittering. She caught the imperious Carpathian decree before he could censor his thoughts. "If we decide someday to have a child," she persisted, ignoring his authority, "if it is male, he will be raised in both worlds. And if it is a girl, she will be raised with free will and a mind of her own. I mean it, Mikhail. I will never, ever, consent.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 96a9104 | More than anything I want your happiness. I would also want my children to be happy. We have years to decide these things, lifetimes, but yes, when we have learned to balance the two worlds and we know the time is right, I agree absolutely to your terms." "You know I'll hold you to it," she warned. He laughed softly, cupping the side of her face in his palm. "As the years go by, your strength and power will grow. You already terrify me, Rav.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 0fdb318 | If you really love who I am, and you want me to be happy, then you know I have to do what comes naturally to me, what I feel is right." His finger traced down her throat, through the deep valley between her breasts, making her shiver with sudden heat. "That is true, little one, but that is also true of my needs. You can do no other than to make me happy. My happiness is completely dependent on whether or not you are safe." Raven couldn't he.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 00db434 | You can do no other than to make me happy. My happiness is completely dependent on whether or not you are safe." Raven couldn't help smiling. "Somehow I think your devious nature is showing." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 82c5a26 | You are going to turn my well-ordered world upside down, are you not?" She tunneled her fingers in his hair, enjoying the feel of its silky thickness against the bare skin of her hips and thighs. "I certainly intend to do my best. You people are in a rut. You need to move into this century." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 8c125b7 | You know, Mikhail, I'm beginning to think my very first assessment of your character was correct. You're arrogant and bossy." He swam toward her with lazy, easy strokes. "But I am sexy." -- | Christine Feehan | ||
| 3f3d941 | You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people." His white teeth gleamed at her. His dark eyes were warm with contentment. "I will accept the marriage as binding, and you will erase the word and all of its meanings from your memory. That will please me." He grinned at her, male amusement taunting her. Her fingertips traced the hard line of his jaw tenderly. "How do you manage to turn everythin.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| c0b0cb0 | You are my life, little one. We will ask Father Hummer to marry us in the way of your people." His white teeth gleamed at her. His dark eyes were warm with contentment. "I will accept the marriage as binding, and you will erase the word and all of its meanings from your memory. That will please me." He grinned at her, male amusement taunting her." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 3973342 | How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2b8b16f | Mikhail's fingers brushed her cheek tenderly. It was so like her to have compassion for a man whose entire being was bent on murdering them. | Christine Feehan | ||
| f0fae1a | Mikhail was as gentle as he knew how to be. Raven closed her eyes, panic welled up. Her words were wrapped in sorrow, in acceptance. Not of the sanctuary of the earth, but of inevitable death. She wanted to do anything he needed, but this was the one thing beyond her capabilities. The earth could not swallow her alive. Mikhail could not waste time on arguments. Raven would do anything to save him. If that meant giving him her last ounce.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ab72fb5 | Mikhail nodded slightly indicating his awareness of the situation. It was the closest to pleading Mikhail had ever heard from Gregori. Gregori read the resolve in Mikhail's eyes and sighed. , he warned. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2c73a31 | Thank you, Mikhail, for my blue jeans." She gave him a faint smile over her shoulder. He found her mysterious, sexy, innocent, and so very fragile. In the depths of her blue eyes he could find no anger, no blame, only love for him shining there. "I am happy you like them, although I still say they are garb for men, not a beautiful woman. I was hoping they would make you smile." "Only because you get that pained look on your face." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 610ccc6 | It took some time before he became aware of a faint shifting in power, a ripple of awareness, like a searching crystal, an eye opening in the earth beside them. They were not alone. The presence touched him, stirred in his mind. Male. Powerful. Gregori. There was that cool menace in his mind. They knew one another so well after all the centuries of standing together against all odds. Gregori had not voiced it as a question, and Mikhail wa.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| ca00281 | You are the only person on this planet I have given my allegiance to. You have always had my loyalty. I count you as my family and my friend. Until your woman or some other gives me my lifemate, you are the only person standing between the darkness and me. Gregori would never have admitted such a thing unless he considered the situation a dire emergency. He was giving Mikhail the only reason he could to reassure Mikhail that he could be tru.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 8242949 | There was a faint note in his voice, something Mikhail could not name, as though Gregori had already ensured that he would get his wish. Mikhail tested his intuition. Gregori's reply was purposely vague. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5c9b692 | If only the three of you could see yourselves. It's very sweet of you to treat me like I'm a fragile porcelain doll, especially when I feel a bit like one, but Mikhail is in me, as I am in him. I feel what he feels and know his thoughts, although he tries to keep them from me." She leaned over to kiss his blue-shadowed jaw. "I love you for trying to protect me, but I'm not weak. I simply have to come to terms with the human bonds my mind pu.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 8aece9d | Send for Jacques. But go feed before you see him. You made me weak with your lovemaking, and if you'll forgive a little crude Carpathian humor, I'll expect you to bring me home dinner." Startled, he stared at her. For a long moment there was silence, and then they both burst out laughing." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 1f5494b | He crossed the distance separating them. His hand curled around the nape of her neck to drag her into his arms. He held her, there in the old cabin, deep within his mountains and forest. He grieved for the loss of his home, his books, grieved for his past, but most of all, he grieved over his inability to spare Raven. He could command the earth, the animals, the sky, yet he could not bring himself to remove her memories because she had aske.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 21fd4e8 | I am sorry, Raven. I had no idea Romanov would force my hand. If we had not put you in the earth, we both would have died." "I'm well aware of that." "I believe I can make you happy in spite of everything, Raven. Just give us a chance." Raven took his hand. "You know, my love, you are not responsible for my happiness, or even for my health. I've had a choice every step of the way, from our very first meeting. I chose you. Clearly, in my hea.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 1bb354c | I do not know how to answer you, Raven. I am not nearly the forgiving man you believe me to be. I want to be that man. I want to be better for you, but I fear I will never get the sight of you lying there with all these deep wounds bleeding from my mind." He kissed each one of them, and then blazed a trail to the underside of her breast and kissed her even more possessively. Raven didn't protest; she simply cradled his head to her, offering.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 705f123 | Look beyond my skin, Raven. Look into my heart and soul. Merge your mind with mine, see me for what I am. Know me for who I am." Mikhail waited silently. A heartbeat. Two. He saw her sudden determination to know what she had bound herself to, to know just whom it was she had formed an alliance with. Her mind merge was tentative at first, her touch so light and delicate it felt like the brush of butterfly wings. She was cautious, moving thro.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| e7c8ddb | Raven pulled out of his mind, her blue eyes steady on his. Mikhail felt the sudden pounding of his heart. There was no condemnation there, only serene calm. "So you see the beast you are tied to for all eternity. We are predators, after all, little one, and the darkness in us is only balanced by the light in our women." Her hands crept around his neck, gentle, loving. "How terrible a struggle all of you must have, and you more than most. To.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 8272bdd | How terrible a struggle all of you must have, and you more than most. To have to make so many life-and-death decisions, to sentence friends and even family to be destroyed, must be a burden beyond belief. You are strong, Mikhail, and your people are right to believe in you. The monster you battle daily is part of you, maybe the part that makes you so strong and determined. You see that side of you as evil when in fact it is what gives you y.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5c73e48 | Kiss me, Raven. Remember me." She lifted long lashes and searched his black, hungry gaze with blue eyes that had darkened to deep purple. There was a burning intensity in the heat of his gaze, of his body. "If I kiss you, Mikhail, I won't be able to stop." | Christine Feehan | ||
| de9dea0 | The sun seemed to take a long while to sink from the sky. The colors of the heavens were blood red, surrounded by shades of orange and pink. As the moon appeared, the clouds covered it like a thin veil. A ring appeared around the moon like some terrible omen. The forest was dark, eerily silent. Tendrils of fog wound low to the ground around tree trunks and bushes. A gentle wind lazily pushed the clouds, brushed at heavy branches, and tried .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 22e1bd1 | When his mind was once more clear and calm, Mikhail trotted back to the blackened ruins, changing back into his own muscular form, complete with clothes, as he strode toward his brother. He was well aware that all of nature, everything he was so much a part of, could feel his ice-cold rage. It was buried deep, seething below the surface, disturbing the harmony in the air, in the forest. His enemies would not escape. Jacques straightened slo.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| d3d3c84 | Jacques straightened slowly, as if he had been waiting for hours. His hand went to the nape of his neck, rubbing at a kink. Mikhail and Jacques stared at one another, dark sorrow in their eyes. Jacques stepped forward and reached for Mikhail in an uncharacteristic show of affection. It was brief and hard, two stiff oak trees exchanging a hug. Mikhail knew Raven would have laughed at the two of them. | Christine Feehan | ||
| b5b82df | Mikhail found the rose-petal-soft skin of her face, traced her delicate cheekbones with gentle fingers. "You were right, little one. We will build our home together, stronger than ever. We will pick a place, deep within the forest, and fill it with so much love, it will spill over to our wolves." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2503594 | Listen to me, my love," Raven murmured. "Having a few friends and feeling affection for certain individuals of a race does not remove prejudice. You have lived with your abilities for so long you take them for granted. Because you can control the human mind, and you use them as cattle." He gasped, shocked that she could think such a thing. His hand circled her ankle where it was tucked up on the bed. "I have never treated humans like cattle.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 3b66b56 | Mikhail felt at a loss. He could not fail her again, yet the work they needed to do was imperative. His plan had been to keep Raven somewhere safe in a deep sleep. He would have forced her to accept his blood without her knowledge. "Perhaps a walk would help," Jacques suggested. He stepped back in an effort to induce her to stand. Raven's gaze clung to Mikhail's for a long, slow moment. Her smile was genuine this time, reaching her eyes and.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| d5564c5 | I think you've managed to put some kind of spell on me." "If I did," he whispered, "it backfired, and I managed to ensnare myself as well." | Christine Feehan | ||
| a0dacf3 | Raven stared up at his face, drinking in the strong lines and the way he looked at her with something close to adoration. She smiled at him. "I think you've managed to put some kind of spell on me." "If I did," he whispered, "it backfired, and I managed to ensnare myself as well." They lay together for a long while, holding one another. Mikhail traced each one of the angry lines along her chest and abdomen and then pressed kisses over them... | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7fc1a3e | We will sleep here in the sleeping chamber where we will be safe. We have lifetimes for you to conquer your fears." She smiled at him and wrapped her arms around him, snuggling closer against his chest, allowing her long lashes to sweep down. Mikhail held her close to him, waiting until she was asleep before sending her into the deeper sleep of their kind. Only then did he allow himself to follow." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 2b5fb50 | Send for Jacques. But go feed before you see him. You made me weak with your lovemaking, and if you'll forgive a little crude Carpathian humor, I'll expect you to bring me home dinner." Startled, he stared at her. For a long moment there was silence, and then they both burst out laughing. "Get dressed," Mikhail ordered with mock sternness. "I cannot have poor Jacques tormented by you." "I fully intend to torment him. He needs to learn not t.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 7a8f3af | Jacques is the least serious of all Carpathian males. He has retained his emotions far longer than most. It has only been a few centuries since he has lost them." "He is serious when it comes to ordering females about. He has definite ideas on how we should behave. I intend to take that up with him." His eyebrow shot up. "I am certain you will keep him occupied while we are gone. Do me a favor, little one, do not be too hard on him." They w.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 4f78ff8 | he warned. Jacques sent them both a look of reprimand and extended his hand to Raven with Old World gallantry. She took it and allowed herself to be pulled to her feet. Mikhail rose beside her, his arm sweeping her into the shelter of his body. She needed the contact, the closeness, the solid reality of his hard frame. Greogir, the instant bodyguard, scanned the air, the ground, moving fast as he did so. His body continually blocked the pr.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| e763af1 | I can take them away completely," Mikhail offered gently. Raven flashed him a small smile, meant to reassure. Her body moved briefly against his. She was well aware of what a temptation that had been for him, how the other two males thought him insane for not taking the choice from her. "You know I prefer to keep my memories. All of them." Mikhail nodded, leaned over, and brushed a kiss over her temple. He felt the weight of Gregori's pale .. | Christine Feehan | ||
| b347026 | Do you have any idea how much I love you?" he asked softly. Her long lashes fluttered, lifted, so that her violet eyes locked with his. A slow, fascinating smile curved her mouth. "Maybe, just a little." She smoothed a line from his forehead. "I'll be fine tonight. Do what you have to do and don't worry about me." "I would prefer that you slept for a while." He shifted, eased his weight off her, surprised to find that he was still partially.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| 84c263c | Do you have any idea how much I love you?" he asked softly. Her long lashes fluttered, lifted, so that her violet eyes locked with his. A slow, fascinating smile curved her mouth. "Maybe, just a little." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 5db7205 | I would prefer that you slept for a while." He shifted, eased his weight off her, surprised to find that he was still partially dressed. "That's only because you have so much anger toward Romanov you don't want me to know what you're doing." | Christine Feehan | ||
| 75aa81b | She propped herself up on one elbow so that her thick mane of silky hair spilled across her body, a thin veil over her breasts. His gut clenched hotly at the sight, his dark eyes going black with a sudden flare of desire. She laughed softly, the sound sultry in the night. "I think you could have sex all night and never be sated." He bent down to taste temptation, his tongue bringing her nipple to a hard peak. "I would very much like to give.. | Christine Feehan | ||
| e8aa474 | You think to protect Jacques by leaving him here with me as my bodyguard." "You see too much." "More than you know." | Christine Feehan |