It was impossible to get the Dimitri and Tasha thing out of my head, but at least packing and getting ready made sure I didn't devote 100 percent of my brain power to him. More like 95 percent.

Yeah, that’s exactly what I want. To help my girlfriend get her old boyfriend back.

You see something you like?

The truth, huh? No one wants to hear the truth. The truth is never sexy. But you... You are too goddamned sexy to be real. -Christian to Lissa

"She was right about something else too," Dimitri said after a long pause. My back was to him, but there was a strange quality to his voice that made me turn around. "What's that?" I asked. "That I do still love you." With that one sentence, everything in the universe changed.

A year. We'd known each other only a year, but we'd lived a lifetime in it.

So much grief, so much anger. So unlike the usual Adrian.