She’d set to work on Ellin’s right away, despite the woman’s still-healing injuries and need for sleep, because even with those concerns, she had a fair deal of strength and talent. And Brianna had wanted to ask her about the dark-haired man. As they walked the corridor, p...
So I was standing in Ruby’s tiny guest room, staring blankly at my reflection in the large ornate mirror when Chevelle came in. “You were right,” I said numbly, unable to look at him as he approached to stand behind me. He didn’t speak. “I was about to cause a war. A war we couldn’t win.” I looke...
But I couldn’t make myself look away. From a perch above, I could see what I knew was Fannie, what only I knew was Fannie, slinking slowly toward a council member. He stood tall, his robe and tassels unruffled, murmuring words I could not understand. I couldn’t decide whether to scream in warning...
I’d planned to distract the gunmen, to give Emily a chance to make it to safety, then to fall as soon as she’d cleared the outer branches of the copse of fir trees and let them think they had me. But Morgan’s order must have been a little looser than I’d estimated, because as soon as we’d started...
Researching him. I tried not to betray myself by glancing down at the papers, but the only other place to look was into his eyes and it felt like that was all I'd found myself doing since I’d first seen him. He didn’t look away. Had he read the documents before I knew he was there? We were frozen...