So whatโd you do to the lesser?โ a male voice said. โI lit his cigarette with a sawed-off,โ another one answered. โHe didnโt come down for breakfast, you feel me?
J.R. WardIn the silence, she felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then. But she had the grown male. She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.
J.R. Ward