What had started out as a game was now an open challenge, as well as a direct threat. Any further action would bear results, it was clear from the way his gaze smoldered into mine. In that way, it was like an optical erection.

The Broken Destiny series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.

Let's go, Kitten, before you kill someone else. -Bones

Between the money and the illegal merchandise, Bones was getting millions. No wonder he laughed at my salary. -Cat

Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me, then I'd be acknowledging to myself that he had the power to destroy me more thoroughly than anyone, even Apollyon or the vampire council, could. All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul.

Maybe I was worrying for nothing. Maybe it had just been casual for him, and I wouldn't even have to tell him it couldn't happen again. After all, the man was a couple hundred years older than me and a former gigolo. I certainly hadn't robbed him of his virginity.

It was the sort of bone deep emotion that made him want to hold her tighter with one hand, and draw a sword against the world with the other.