I have a box inside me now that never used to exist. I never needed it before. It's down in my deepest, darkest corner, and it's airtight, soundproofed and padlocked. It's where I keep the thoughts I don't know what to do with, that could get me into trouble. Eating Unseelie hammers on the inside of that lid incessantly. I try to keep kissing Barrons in that box, too, but it gets out sometimes.

Barrons had just given me the most carnal, sexually charged hungry look I'd ever seen in my life, and I was pretty sure he didn't even know he had done it.

Get back on the bike and tell me where to go." "I'll tell you where to go," I muttered sourly, and he laughed.

He didn't just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as if his life depended on his kissing her.

A little blood never bothers me.

Turn it off," Ryodan says without even looking at me. "You're distressing Dani. No one distresses Dani but me.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.