Piper asked at lunch. “You were really late.” “She was with me,” Jude declared with an arrogant and suggestive raise of his eyebrows. “I wasn’t,” I quickly denied. “You weren’t with m...
I remarked tiredly to Britte. We had been in the process of moving her out of the dorms and into my apartment all day. It was Saturday and I was still tired from my date with Fin last night. This was supposed to be life after the date, our relationship back t...
One, two, three, four, five. “You’re obsessing again,” Vaughan, my oldest brother and resident Confucius, noted dryly. I grunted. Mostly because I didn’t want to admit that he was right. I was obsessing- counting my brothers and sister over and over, as if their numbers would change from one seco...
This door was next to a mechanical, sliding door big enough to back a moving truck into. Like the lobby, this unloading space was huge and could hold a lot of people, but it was less inviting and more empty-feeling; although it was not even close to being sparsely decorated. Gage used the large s...
I hated her more than I hated the other two and that was saying something. “She won’t do it,” Ryder told them. “She doesn’t have to,” Isadora explained slowly. “She could kill Nix instead. Then it wouldn’t be a problem.” “I would love to kill Nix,” I laughed. “Believe me, I would love to end that...
Seth whispered once we were back on the solid gravel ground of my driveway. “You deserve to go to bed.” He put his hand on the small of my back, ushering me inside. He tried to get me up the stairs but I think Jupiter caught on to what he was trying to do. “W...
The battle was mostly finished by the time I reached the entrance where most of my teammates were cleaning up. I started counting heads before I even realized what I was doing. It looked like we had some injuries, but for the most part I found everyone we came with alive. Except Ame...
I tried not to flinch from the floating embers that landed on my skin. They burned through my clothes and I wanted to swat them away like a pesky swarm of insects. Pieces of the building to my right started to collapse and the loud crumbling of wood and plaster highlighted the state of my life. T...
I yelled over my shoulder. I’d just finished my shift from last night, but the new patrol was ready to go out and I didn’t want them to leave without me. My father stood behind me, in the middle of the hallway where his sick trophies couldn’t reach him. “Why?” he father called back, clearly as pe...
First things first, I hadn’t really been alone with Hendrix since our first kiss and that was still outside in the open where any Feeder could have stumbled upon us or Page could have walked in on our very amorous admission of feelings. If Hendrix could pull it off, we were going someplace alone,...