When I'm with him, I can feel myself getting better. It's like he's picking up broken pieces of me and putting me back together, and I don't even know he's doing it. We never talk about it. We don't go to therapy. He just loves me and that's enough.

Ilona Andrews

Categorized in : Together Broken Get Better

And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I didn't realize that he was dead until I awoke and then it was like a punch in the stomach. And sometimes I knew in my dream that I was dreaming, and I woke up crying.

Ilona Andrews

dad pain dream

I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.

Ilona Andrews

occasions deranged wells

The sight of me puffing and straining apparently amused him to no end.

Ilona Andrews

amused ends sight

In there?' She nodded. 'You want us to go into the tortoise?' Another nod. 'It's alive.' Another nod.

Ilona Andrews

tortoises alive want

Half-man, half-beast, all nightmare. The shapeshifter warrior form.

Ilona Andrews

warrior half men

You don't cause problems. You cause catastrophes.

Ilona Andrews

catastrophe causes problem

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

Ilona Andrews

discipline discovery needs

He raised his hand in a peaceful gesture. "You need to relax a bit, dove. Like Mouse over there. You trust me, don't you, Mouse?" "Nope!" "Ahhh, I'm hurt. Nobody likes me.

Ilona Andrews

peaceful hurt hands

It's not your job to die for your Pack! It's your job to make the other bastards die for theirs.

Ilona Andrews

packs dies jobs

Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he raised his hands--"blessed silence.

Ilona Andrews

blessed giving hands

I had to give it him, to flatter and insult a woman in one propostition took talent.

Ilona Andrews

insult talent giving

Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.

Ilona Andrews

cease ability alive

I want to punish them. I want that punishment to be so hard, so vicious that the next who takes their place wets himself at the mere thought of trying to fight me.

Ilona Andrews

punishment fighting trying

He lunged for the maps. I grabbed the chair and hit him with it. He went down. I hit him again to make sure he stayed that way, stepped over him, and picked up the maps. "I win.

Ilona Andrews

maps winning way

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

Ilona Andrews

two long years

Big bad merc, down with a basic hip toss. In your place I'd be blushing.

Ilona Andrews

toss hips bigs

I don't want it to be attributed to a loss of control on my part. When I throw you out of the window, I want there to be no doubt the act was deliberate.

Ilona Andrews

doubt want loss

Wanna spot me?" "No thanks. How about I just scream verbal encouragements at you?

Ilona Andrews

thanks scream encouragement

The Oracle rose. As one, the three witches bowed. "See?" Bran jerked his thumb at the three women. "That's how a woman should treat a man. Next time you see me, I want you to do just like them.

Ilona Andrews

three rose men

When life backs you into a corner and offers you no escape, when your friends, your lover, and your family abandon you, when you're at the end of your rope, panicked, alone, and losing your mind, you know you'd give anything to make your problems go away. Then, desperate and eager, you will come to Unicorn Lane, seeking salvation in its magics and secrets. You'll do anything, pay any price. Unicorn Lane will take you in, shroud you in its power, fix your problems, and exact its price. And then you will learn what 'anything' really means.

Ilona Andrews

magic giving mean