For the past three days and nights, he had checked in on his guest in the basement. She had not demanded anything of him except something to read and a radio, which they had in the equipment room, so she was not too bad to deal with. However, Tris still did not trust her, no matter if she had bee...
The old, ratty couch had been there when he bought the place. It was more comfortable than it looked. His thoughts turned toward October. Her look had disturbed him. Deep down he knew she saw him as a monster. The numbers on the computer screen blurred while he thought about her. Each night he im...
In her room, she undid the mask and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Her eyes were black with a circle of silver in the middle of them as if the full moon had been captured. Her makeup was smeared and her hair tangled, but she still could not believe what had happened. &n...
Music blared from Landon’s wing. I sighed and walked in. The crystal hummed with energy. Where Nick was buried there was a small blue orchid growing. I brushed my fingers over the petals and thought about the vampire who was my lover for so many years. My inner Guardian also mourned for him. I wa...
After a deep sleep, she awoke with conviction. Her mind was made up. She was going to face the enemy that had destroyed the Athenaeum and then free the other spellcasters. Once the rogue spellcasters were gone, she would return to the mountain with Andrik. That was all she wanted. She might be th...
But each night she had closed her eyes, she hadn’t revisited that same dreamland. The man haunted her. His touches ignited her skin each time she thought about him. How his mouth felt on her flesh. The way his fingers had trailed over her breasts and her thighs. Cindy kept bugging her about going...
Unlike before in the darkness, it seemed he was solid and yet only half there. My captor released my right arm but still had one of his arms around my waist. Now that my eyes adjusted, I glanced around the room and noticed we were in a sumptuous bedroom that wasn’t my own. A large bed stood along...
A tear slipped down her cheek. The music had cut off. All was quiet in the club. She hadn’t heard it so hushed in a long time. It reminded her of a cemetery. The cold of the grave washed over her skin. A gray haze descended over the world. Tig’s grip on her arm wavered, and then she couldn’t feel...
No matter how long he rotated that darn cloth, he was never going to get it cleaner than it already was. But that was not the point. His thoughts were fixed on the one thing he was sure he could never have again. He tried to force his mind from the one vision that haunted him. Nadine. Her full li...
He was darker than the night and bald. His purple eyes were the thing that made him seem so unreal. Illiana and the others were sitting around a fire. Jalisa had joined them along with Tullin, the raven that she was infatuated with. He was coming to like the raven. They said nothing as they liste...
But he didn’t. A cold breeze stirred the dust, and she shivered. A shadow fell across the floor, and her fear kicked in once more. She pulled her knees up to her chest and glanced up to see her angel standing over her. Something was different about him. It was more than the new butterfly tattoo o...
The sounds of helicopters filled the lightening sky, and the tang of fresh blood lingered in his mouth. He carried two rabbits he had caught to bring back to Alika. Now that he had fed, he could think coherently. It also helped that it was near dawn. His human rationale had returned, and it was e...