He understands evil better than any other person I’ve ever known. We disagree in how to eliminate it, but we do not disagree that it exists.

A life is not a waste of time

His gentleness twined another tendril around her heart, until she was so entangled in him, she knew she’d never break free. For the first time in her life, her wolf had chosen. And it had chosen this lone wolf. “You have me,” she whispered. All of me.

Push me and I will. I’ll get punished, but you’ll still be dead.

My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.

If I were to splay you out on my desk and thrust my fingers into you right now, I think I’d find different.

Death holds no allure for me, Elena.” The power of him cut against his skin, a cold white fire. “Not when I have yet to sate my hunger for you.