The Beast Lord walked out of the warehouse. The screen went dark. My knight in furry armor. Saiman opened his mouth. "This is why I didn't. Personally, I think your smile is inappropriate.

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He strained to say something else. I leaned toward him. He focused on me. “Rape,” he promised. “Many, many times. Until you bleed . . .” “I’m so flattered.

flattered focused

I will devour you. I will lick your bones clean and crush them between my teeth. I will suck the marrow…” “That’s nice,” Kate said. “The shield.

teeth crush nice

Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of... by Ilona Andrews

Help me, I can’t breathe, your ego is pushing all the air out of the room.

ego air rooms

You will tell me what you know now," he said. "Or?" He said nothing, so I elaborated. "See, this kind of threat usually has an 'or' attached to it. Or an 'and'. 'Tell me and I'll allow you to live' or something like that.

threat kind said

I reached over and squeezed Curran’s hand. “Come on, you, me, a platter of barely seared meat, it will be great. If we see the navigators, we can make fun of the way they hold their forks.

meat fun hands

Crazy Curran ranked right up there with monsoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other natural disasters.

tornadoes crazy earthquakes

There is no such thing as privacy between a deity and his worshipper. There are no secrets, no glossed-over failures. Only promises kept and abandoned, sins committed and imagined, and raw emotion. How many of us are ready to have our lives judged? What would happen if we were found wanting?

deities secret promise

Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you'll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he apears.

feelings sometimes thinking

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a s... by Ilona Andrews

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

sound doe men

Who are you, what are you doing here, who is Hood, why does he want Julie, and where is Julie's mother?" "Is that all!" He wiped the red smudge off his lip with the back of his hand. "Yes. No. Why is the cauldron important, where did it go, how is Morrigan involved, where do you go when you disappear, and why do you keep stealing the maps? Okay, now that's everything.

important mother hands

You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me.

sorry hands moving

No. I don't go through your things. I just come once in a while to make sure you're in one piece. I like knowing you're safe, asleep in your bed. I haven't stolen anything.

pieces bed knowing

He snarled. I showed him my teeth. A rolled-up newspaper landed on my head and then on Jim’s. “None of that in my house!” Oh my gods. The alpha of Clan Cat just got smacked with a rolled-up newspaper.

teeth cat house

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him fr... by Ilona Andrews

The universe shrank to Curran and his pain. I had to break him free. Nothing else mattered.

universe pain break

I have a vamp body for you," Andrea said. "It's in the freezer." I gave her a nice smile. "You shouldn't have.

nice body said

He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," h... by Ilona Andrews

He caressed my cheek. "You came for me," I whispered. "Always," he told me.

cheeks

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant."... by Ilona Andrews

The pervert." "He prefers to think of himself as sexual deviant." "Semantics.

deviants semantics thinking

A girl half my age swept by and slammed two giant tankard filled with beer on the table. Ragnvald held his up. I smashed my tankard against his. Beer splashed. We raised the tankard and pretended to take much bigger gulps than we did.

girl beer two

Who is that?” “Your replacement.” “You replaced me with a shaved poodle?” “He's got mad skills.

poodles mad skills

What is he doing here?" Curran growled. "He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade. "Tough luck. You're mine.

tough luck broken