You bruised my ego, you see, and there’s just not enough money in the world to soothe my ego when it gets bruised

Uh, what are you doing?” “Nothing much. Just erasing all of Calinda’s good grades and replacing them with incompletes. Eventually, the administrators will figure out what happened, but I’m making it look like a computer error. Still, I imagine she’ll get some nasty lectures from her profs and parents in the meantime.

Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.

I hate to say this, but not everyone seems happy that you’re still alive,” Finn said, picking up on the glares coming my way. “You can’t please everyone,” I drawled. “And you know how much I hate to disappoint our dear friends in the underworld.

He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine. Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar when you're clutching your intestines and choking on your own blood on his living room floor.

It was better to know what people were really like than put your trust in someone who just wanted to hurt you in the end.

Her touch was as soft as a snowflake falling onto my skin.