Better safe than close. A phrase Alleria repeated to herself so many times over their lost years that it has become some strange combination of vow and hymn.
"Your husband is a schmuck to eat out when he's got a dish like you at home."
Eve has always been older and wiser.
Cycles of love and loss and understanding.
He sleeps beside you, spare hand curled around the chain, six feet of arrogant beauty and ruthless intelligence softened and hidden.
Mary’s usual expression of placid calm slipped for a moment before she responded with a twinkle in her eye. “I could possess advanced technology from an alien planet.”
Of all the prisons in which she's spent time, Lotus Pier may be the kindest.
Balls and chains are for pens at the bank, and he's never seen a pen that looked like it could survive a level three nuclear holocaust.
Commanding that a thing be done is a damn sight different from witnessing it in person. Sometimes one needs to be reminded of this.
Luke's intentions toward his nephew have been misinterpreted, and maybe this is a mercy.