Man, he loved the smell of the room. Lemon-scented innocence was what he called it in his mind. Sweet like a flower, but not cloying. Clean. Bella squeezed his hand and led him over to the crib. Surrounded by satin bows that were bigger than she was, Nalla was curled up on her side, her arms and ...
As Mack put the inquiry out there, he sat back in his office chair and looked at his interviewee’s ring finger again. Still vacant. Suggesting this Beth Lewis was as unmarried as she had been at the start of their meeting. Yeah, wow. Way to be professional, MacAllan. “Are you going to need me to ...
“Yeah, she does.” He liked Doc Jane. Hell, he owed her. But he had to remind himself of his manners: It would be damn tacky to bite the head off a female who was not only your brother’s shellan, but who had saved the love of your life from bleeding out on the birth table. “She’s recovered beautif...
Well, that and the smell of fresh-cut flowers from Fritz doing his midday vase routine out in the hall. “Is this what you want from me, angel?” he asked aloud. “Come on, I know you’re here. Is this what you want?” To emphasize the question, he put his hand under the covers and let it drift down h...
He’d expected to get home much earlier, but the negotiations he’d begun with the blood brothers weren’t going as well as he’d hoped. There were some issues with their debt financing structure that were going to make securing a large, unfettered interest in the company close to impossible. The McK...
Happy, the man’s arms around her, their heads all nestled in. Except they weren’t looking at each other—and that was the only reason he didn’t break up the party: They were staring at the computer screen . . . at a man in a wheelchair racing a bunch of other guys.“. . . Height is just a vertical ...
. . clinic,” Qhuinn wheezed.Fuck that, John signed.“No. Clinic.” He might not have much to live for, but that didn’t mean he was in a big hurry to eat a Death Whopper with fries.Blay leaned down, getting eyeball to eyeball with him. “You were in a hit-and-run with a fucking car—”“Not . . . car.”B...
Drop one down. Let's see how it fits." A composite-metal corrugated sewer pipe about three feet in diameter and seven feet long was lowered into the hole so it stood on its end. The thing fit perfectly. "Let's get the other two in there," O said. Twenty minutes later the three pipe sections we...
It looked like John and Qhuinn were going into the back with Gina. Unless, of course, there happened to be another two guys just like them, one of whom had a tat in the Old Language on the back of his neck and another who had shoulders as big as Rehv’s. But that absolutely was Gina in her red-don...
Vishous looked up from his bank of computers. Butch O’Neal was standing in the Pit’s living room with a pair of leathers on his thighs and a whole lot of you’ve-got-to-be-kidding-me on his puss. “They don’t fit you?” V asked his roommate. “Not the point. No offense, but these are wicked Village P...