Tunstell, this is your Alpha speaking. Do as I tell you. You must regurgitate now. Regurgitation is an involuntary action. You cannot simply order me to do it,” replied Tunstell in a small voice. “I most certainly can. Besides which, you are an actor.” Tunstell grimaced. “I’ve never had cause to vomit onstage.

I may be a werewolf and Scottish, but despite what you may have read about both, we are not cads!

The Gamma paused. “You have a crazed werewolf in your wine cellar?” “You can think of a better place to stash him?” “What about the wine?

[She] lost her patience, a thing she was all too prone to misplacing.

She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

Lyall understood a broken heart, but it could not be allowed to rumple perfectly good shirtwaists.

How was I to know idiocy was only a temporary condition, especially in your case? It never has been before!