Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

I have a cotillion event. Some yacht-club charity fundraiser thingy. Whitney is insisting, and Kit took her side.” Three wide smiles. “Oh shut up.

I hated myself for needing him at such times, for craving his strength whenever I felt upset.

An elite confederacy of nerds. My peeps

Though Anne was born in Alabama and schooled in Mississippi, she had traveled North, and, like many Southerners, gained a theoretical understanding of the concept of cold. But the mind is an overprotective parent. What it doesn't care for, it hides. Like many inhabiting the subtropics, Anne had repressed the reality of subzero mercury.

I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go home and have dinner with my family and nobody lets me get a word in.