Man" Rhage muttered, "someone hit this place with the Hallmark stick." Until it broke.

And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you wanted to survive doing the work they did, accurate risk assessment was something you developed early -- and even Qhuinn, who was the object of the protective instinct the Chosen was rocking, wouldn't have dared touch her.

The pair of them were staring at the computer screen like two dogs watching animal planet: very focused, but incapable of turning up the volume or changing the channel. -Manny and Butch

When she didn't continue, he shrugged. "Just let me bring you coffee. I want to wait on you. Makes me happy

Did television execs have souls? Now, that was an existential question and a half.

You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.

Indeed, Xcor stayed away for the wrong reason, the bad reason, an unacceptable reason—in spite of all his training, he found himself choosing Throe’s life over ambition: His anger had taken him in one direction, but his regret had led him in another. And the latter one was what won out.