How’s Her Royal Bitchiness?” “Alive.” “Pity.

It was a white-collar crime.” Illium gave her an odd look. “In the human world, such crimes are lightly punished, though they harm hundreds, leading some to choose death out of despair, while the man who beats a single person is considered the worse criminal.

Is your skin this tone all over?" "Only one way you're going to discover the answer to that.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

Emotion without reason lets people walk all over you; reason without emotion is a mask for cruelty.

Illium, with his wings of silver-kissed blue and a face designed to seduce both males and females, not to mention his ability to do the most impossible acrobatics in the air, would provide a worthy diversion. The fact that he’d decided to ditch half his clothing was just icing on the cake.

Pack is built on the bonds of family, of mating, of love. You come first. You always will.