In fact, it might as well have been the worst since Abel came to know Levi—and he had seen some pretty terrible days.It started first thing in the morning.“Whoa, where are you going?” Levi asked, grabbing Abel’s shoulder when he moved to carry his bag into the west wing of the sanctuary.Abel glar...
“Rylie will want to talk with you about Stark more,” Trevin explained as they walked. “Get information about his location in New York, his movements over the last few weeks, his plans…” They had already gone over much of that while flying to the sanctuary. Rylie had grilled Deirdre about every de...
“I’m sorry. This one has been denied, too.”She pulled a credit card out of her wallet. “Try this one.”The hospital cafeteria was empty in the middle of the night. Several quiet hours had elapsed since loading Betty into an ambulance, and nothing had happened since the police finished asking quest...
The one place in town that was open and air conditioned was the bar—which Elise was surprised to discover was not abandoned after all—and the kopides flocked to it.The Pump Lounge was one room with a sticky floor and exposed concrete walls. An elevated step in the corner was meant to be a stage, ...
It was a given. Any time he made a public appearance, people flocked to him. Whether or not these humans knew it, they had the same origin as the mortals on Earth, and some part of them longed for his ethereal light.But even that anticipation didn’t begin to match the reality that faced him when ...
WE DROVE that far to come here?” Jessica asked, gaping at the restaurant that Abel had finally stopped at. Poppy’s was the kind of quaint, twenty-four hour diner that Rylie had come to recognize as a staple of small towns. The fifties-style exterior with art deco accents was just like Ole Waco ba...
Seth asked, stroking a hand down Rylie’s side.They were in bed together at the Gresham Ranch after a long day of arrangements, from flowers to the marriage license and picking a dress, and Rylie was exhausted. She thought that she could sleep for weeks if given the opportunity.But there wouldn’t ...
“Pagan used some kind of bullet that encapsulated silver pellets. The wound looks superficial, but the damage is deep,” he told Rylie when she checked on them at three in the morning. His eyes were rimmed with rings of exhaustion, and his brother was unconscious. “I keep finding more fragments bu...
She’d met dozens of people who had escaped that smoky darkness and had seen their wounds. She could imagine what they might have suffered all too well, and she’d been having nightmares about it. The kind of dreams that made her wake up gasping for air. And now she and Abram were going inside for ...
The afternoon was perfect for it. A cool breeze carried cool air down the mountain and the sky was slightly overcast so they could easily see the targets. Louise gave Rylie an encouraging smile when she lined up to take wrist and finger guards like everyone else. Picking out her equipment, Rylie...
They looked like vacation rentals, and judging by the empty streets and dark windows, they were all unoccupied. It smelled like nobody had been inside of them for weeks.Except for the one on the end. Someone had touched the front door. He detected the scent of skin oils on the handle, and the sou...
Chunks of ice floated on an ocean the color of molten steel, cracking and crunching and popping with the tide. The water sluiced toward his feet with foamy fingers.Elise sat on the dock, feet dangling into the ice. She had one of her swords across her lap and a sharpening stone in her hand. She w...
It had been an active attempt by Tate to defile his parent’s property, and the security cameras probably caught all of it, which seemed to please Tate. Levi didn’t enjoy showing off, but he had been too horny to care at the time.Not long after that, Tate’s mom had died. And then Levi had been for...