Kelley Armstrong: What's next? If there are vampires in there, they pr...

All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.

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lucky wanted thinking

This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I didn't care. I was happy. I was safe. I was right where I wanted to be.

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care guy safe

Let’s just say that being able to contact ghosts makes for some very interesting ménages á trios… and ménages á quartre, and ménages á … whatever five is in French. ~Jaime Vegas

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vegas able interesting

I'd seen more cops in the last few days than on a weekend LAW and ORDER marathon" - Paigne Winterbourne

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weekend law order

And unless I'm remembering it wrong, mermaids don't sing and sirens don't swim." "Ariel sang in 'The Little Mermaid'," Corey said. Sam came over to join us. "Do I even want to know why you remember her name?

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mermaid names swim

Cleavage is great," she said. "Like an extra pocket.

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cleavage pockets said

I might be half Derek's size, but I was the one who sounded like a two-hundred-pound beast plowing through the woods.

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plowing half two

Dont talk to the crazy kids. I longed to shout back that we weren't crazy. I'd mistaken her kid for a ghost, that's all.

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crazy ghost kids

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

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roles responsibility leadership

Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige

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feigning want interesting

I must have been sound asleep if i missed all that shouting-Simon What shouting?-Derek you mean that Chole just told you she followed a ghost onto a roof, and you didnt blast her all the way to Canada?-Simon He's a little off this morning-Chole More than a little i'll say.-Simon

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morning mean way

Do you really think he untied you? .. He was just checking his kids handiwork.

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handiwork kids thinking

We drove to the airport. On the way, Clay gave him "the lecture," including all the do's and don'ts of meeting the Alpha, which was only slightly more complicated than an audience with the queen. Don't sit until you're invited to. Don't talk unless he asks you a question. Don't eat before he does. Don't make direct eye contact. Jeremy demanded none of this, but that wasn't the point.

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airports queens eye

I saw my true power. The darkest power. The greatest power. ~Jaime Vegas

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true-power vegas saws

Nuh-uh. No deals with the devil. I’ve learned my lesson on that one. ~Jaime Vegas

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vegas devil lessons

I could shave my head and wear a sackcloth and still get a whole lot of ghostly wrong numbers. Makes me wonder if there’s some kind of ghost-necro porn industry down there. ~Jaime Vegas

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wrong-number vegas numbers

There are just as many bitches out there as bastards. Equal opportunity asshole-ism.

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isms equal opportunity

After the woman left, I set my coffee down and opened the bag. Two muffins-double-chocolate and blueberry bran. I texted Adam a thank-you. I’d just started eating the chocolate muffin when he texted backPut that one down and eat the bran. It’s better foryou.

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coffee chocolate two

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

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common-courtesy courtesy common

My past was a private obstacle, not a public excuse.

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obstacles excuse past

What's next? If there are vampires in there, they probably drink artificial blood plasma substitute.