I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.

It was something of a mystery how a couple of teenage girls had managed to escape detection for two years, especially when one of them was a privileged Moroi princess and the other a delinquent dhampir with a disciplinary file so long that it broke school records.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

...hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.

I just rely on natural talent," said Adrian, strolling up to the start of the Dragon's Lair. "When you have such a wealth of it to draw from, the danger comes from having too much.

Later, I would ask Shaya to help me compose a formal response to Katrice's letter, something a long the lines of "I am the Thorn Queen. F*** Off.

I steeled myself for the next response. I knew it was going to be one of the Zen life lessons. [...] Instead he kissed me.