His coworker was velvety-skinned, a sexy boy-on-the-cusp-of man.

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes.

Being threatened seems to being out the worst in me.

Who and what we surround ourselves with is who and what we become. In the midst of good people, it is easy to be good. in the midst of bad people, it is easy to be bad.

How do you kill a vampire?"-Mac "Hope hes not"-Barrons

For the record, Irish," he informed her tightly, just in case she got the wrong idea, "I kneel to no one.

His heavy-lidded gaze reflected a languor that had nothing to do with having just awakened, and there was no doubt what was on his mind. But this is no safe cherry picker, Gwen thought, growing more concerned by the moment. This man looks like a cherry tree chopper-downer.