While Dmitri, as the leader of Raphaelโs Seven, could not accept such a weakness, the mortal heโd once been, the one who had loved a woman with a wide mouth and eyes of slanted brown . . . that man understood what it was to love so deeply it was a kind of beautiful madness.
Nalini SinghVenomโs pupils contracted the instant before he slid his sunglasses back on. She couldnโt help it. โWhy isnโt your tongue forked?โ โWhy canโt you fly?โ A smirk. โThose things on your back arenโt accessories you know.
Nalini SinghThe power, it seduced, whispering to me to weave it into my own cells." A glance over his shoulder. "Before you, I would've no doubt accepted it and it would've destroyed me from the inside out." "Before you," she whispered, "I was shut up inside my heart, protecting it from harm, and never knowing the glory I missed." She linked her hand in his. "You and I, we're a unit. I dare any evil on this earth to tear us apart.
Nalini Singh