I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha's mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha's mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.

No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

He was like Superman, but with fangs and oddly impaired morals.

I thought you were dead. Stupid. As if I'd die without taking you with me.

That is the freakiest thing that ever happened to me.” I nodded toward the mess. “And if you knew my life, you’d realize just how freaky that is.

I jerked my chin toward Frost’s body. ‘All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.’ Hao said, “Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.” Half-naked, covered with the same filth we all were, he still gave the impression of being in control of himself and his environment.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.