He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

She suddenly understood why she had let him kiss her in the diner, why she had wanted him at all. She wanted to control him. He was every arrogant boyfriend that had treated her mother badly. He was every boy that told her she was too freaky, who had laughed at her, or just wanted her to shut up and make out. He was a thousand times less real than Roiben.

Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

I wonder if he really could rationalize what I did to him, really treat betrayal like the slight transgression of a recalcitrant business partner. I wonder if I hurt him. If he can rationalize what I did to him, it’s easy to imagine how he rationalized what he did to me.

Put your puppet on the throne." said Talathain. "You may make her Queen but she won’t be Queen for long.

If we have to be cat burglars, I'm going to see what' to steal in the fridge." We're trying to find evidence she's the poisoner. Just a thought before you start putting random things in your mouth." Ruth shrugged and walked past Val.