Sophia got up, taking one last look at the extraordinary daughter Councilor Nikita Duncan had borne.

Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.

There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)

Life changes us. To wish otherwise is pointless.

Voles-tu, mon petit papillon.” Illium laughed at Galen’s instruction to “fly, little butterfly

For the first time in forever, he was stunned to silence. Not by her words, but by the tenderness in her hands, the worry in her eyes. He was an archangel. He’d been wounded far, far worse and shrugged it off. But then, there had been no woman with sun kissed by the sunset and eyes of storm gray to tear into him for daring to get himself hurt.

Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.