What had given her away? She hadn’t dressed any differently tonight, just the usual jeans and simple blouse she often wore to class. Was her smile a little too bright? Nervous, maybe? Could he see it in her eyes or her body language? Her eyes narrowed. Or—could he read her mind after all even tho...
Come to me, my love. Mate, his bear called to her. My mate. His whole body called to her like hers called to him, and he turned his brain off. Hell, he’d turned it off a while ago when he’d lain naked in bed, tossing and turning and thinking of her. Not about the baby, not about the news Ty Hawth...
With Trey standing so close, her whole body hummed. That part was a definite plus. But bars on the windows and a locked door? That part…crap. She shivered at the thought of being trapped. Which was the wrong move, because Trey caught the motion and ran his hand along her arm, sending sparks throu...
In fact, I don’t remember even thinking about him. Sometimes, my brother would cry and scream at my mother, ‘I don’t want you. I want my daddy.’ And she’d shout back at him, ‘If you want your father so much, you can fucking go and live with him.’ To Chris, though, the words weren’t simply somethi...
Jessica glanced from her own weary reflection in the bar mirror to that of her sister. God, how could Janna look so peppy at a time like this? “Everything is wrong,” she mumbled and let her shoulders droop. She was this close to rolling into a fetal position on the floor and giving up. But her st...
His eyes were tempted to stray to the rearview mirror, but he forced them to stay on the road. He clenched his hands around the steering wheel and told himself it was better not to look. Janna had pulled him back from the edge of a cliff with her taste of heaven, and now it was time to go. He hal...
Do you know where ghosts swim?” Heather turned from the geography lesson on the blackboard to eleven grinning faces, all anticipating Timmy’s punchline. “Lake Erie!” he said, sending them all into laughter. Heather did her best to look stern, cutting him off before he could get on a roll. “Timmy,...
Karen said, sliding into the last free chair at the corner table before anyone else beat her to it. The portly hedgehog shifter who’d just vacated the space winked on his way out, and Karen hid her smile. Just like Tanner arranged. Her dragon nodded in satisfaction. The dealer’s eyes didn’t so mu...
Long after she looped it around a cleat in a double figure eight, she kept right on clutching, because they had made it. Serendipity was safe. She tipped her head back, found Orion in the sky, and muttered a little thank you to whatever god or ghosts had let them squeeze into that tiny, sheltered...
Tina was out there, too, and somehow, he had to get her to safety. The fire in his shoulder didn’t matter. The beast didn’t matter. Only Tina did. The whole world zoomed down to the light at the end of that mine shaft, and he staggered toward it. An overhead beam groaned. The roof shook, raining ...