“I’m by myself,” she said finally. “No family to speak of.” “I see.” Leaning forward again, he rested his arms against the table. “That must be rather difficult.” “Sometimes.” “And lonely, I imagine. Perhaps that is why you came here… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“I twisted my body, suddenly unable to stand his hands on me. “Do you really think I give a damn what you are? That anything else matters to me more than you, yourself? I don’t want you to stay because you think I need a protector, Daniel. I’ve been looking after myself for a very long time now, and I’ve… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“Daniel rested his hip on the counter, arms crossed, saying and offering nothing. “What? Are you thinking about sticking me with Luc permanently?” I laughed, the sound anxious. I waited for Daniel to laugh, too, at the sheer insanity of the idea. To reassure me he would never do something so cruel. But he stayed silent, something he was getting… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“I’m by myself,” she said finally. “No family to speak of.” “I see.” Leaning forward again, he rested his arms against the table. “That must be rather difficult.” “Sometimes.” “And lonely, I imagine. Perhaps that is why you came here tonight?” Her jaw popped under the strain of maintaining decorum. “First: I said I was alone, not lonely. There's a… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“What? You think your White Knight’s going to charge in and save the day? Not fucking likely. Nic’s locked up far away from anywhere anyone would ever even think to look. And Dmitri knows all about Daniel. The only reason he’s not strung up in a cave somewhere is because we don’t want to call any more attention to ourselves.… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“Then what’s the problem? You keep telling me she’s just a job. So, fine. The job’s done. You found her. You trained her. Now she has to do her part. She has to kill Dmitri. Whether she can survive the battle or not doesn’t matter, and it isn’t up to you to decide.” Luc got up from the swing and… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share
“Belonging: that was the name for it. More tempting than sex and so far out of the question as to be unthinkable.” — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“That last night,” she said quietly. “Why did you say you hoped you'd never see me again?” He hadn’t said it; it had been… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“It had only been two days – two days – since he’d seen her last, and yet he’d missed her every step of the… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“When he’d woken that morning to find her gone, he’d used the time alone to clean himself up in every sense of the word.… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“Daniel came to sit beside me, ignoring my wariness and settling into the thin, worn cushion. “Who’d you think I was that first night… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“How do you think I got to this point? Each day another step on an unending staircase? Months of searching, dredging through the filthiest… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
