Retribution (Dark-Hunter 20.) 88% 13 csillagozás

He bared his teeth in a purely canine gesture of defiance. “Fine. I get shocked, you better start
checking shoes before you put them on.” He went to comply.

Ren laughed bitterly. “Yeah, I understand better than you can ever imagine. I know exactly what
it’s like to want something so bad, you can taste it and to have to watch as it voluntarily goes to
someone else and then wish them both the best and try to mean it. I know the bitter taste of gall as they
sit down at your table and you have to smile while inside you die every time they touch or exchange
love-saturated glances. Don’t talk to me about torment, Jess. I wrote the fucking book on it.”

“If it makes you feel any better Tory, they were just as bad when Mia was born. At least you don’t have
Sin, Kish and Damien running around, trying to boil water for no other reason than that’s what someone
had told Sin husbands are supposed to do and since Sin doesn’t know how to boil water, he had to
micromanage the other two incompetents who’d never done it either. I’m amazed they didn’t band
together to kill him during it or burn down the casino. And don’t get me started on my mother trying to
murder my husband in the middle of it or her fighting with grandma over whose labors were more
painful. Or,” she cast a meaningful glance to Simi, “someone setting my mother’s hair on fire and trying
to barbecue her to celebrate the birth.”

“When a new baby is born you kill off an old annoying family member who gets on everyone’s nerves which for all of us would be the heifer-goddess ‘cause the only person who like her be you, Akra-Kat. I know she's your mother and all, but sometimes you just gotta say no thank you. You a mean old heifer-goddess who need to go play in traffic and get run over by something big like a steamroller or bus or something else really painful that would hurt her a lot and make the rest of us laugh.” She put her mask back on. “Not to mention the Simi barbecue would have been fun too if someone, Akra-Kat, hadn’t stopped the Simi from it. I personally think it would have been a most magnificent gift for the baby. Barbecued heifer-goddess Artemis. Yum! No better meal. Oh then again baby got a delicate constitution and that might give the poor thing indigestion. Artemis definitely give the Simi indigestion and I ain’t even ate her yet.”

Life ain’t supposed to be kind.
True.
And God knew, it’d been nothing but a kick in his groin most days. But then there were
moments like this one. Perfect moments of feeling close to someone. Of letting their warmth soothe you.
That was what living was about. That was being human. When everything hurt and everything
was wrong, to have that one person who could make you smile even when all you wanted to do was cry.
These were the moments that got you through the bad

“You keep talking to me like that, cowboy, and you might get lucky tonight.”
“I already got lucky tonight.”
“Mmm, so you’re a one-shot-a-night guy, huh?”
He laughed in her head. “Ah, now, sugar, I didn’t say that. The stallion never minds an all-night ride, especially when it’s a wild one.”
“Stallion? That’s some ego you have there.”
“It’s not ego when it’s true.”

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There is purpose in all things no matter how random they seem. Mother Fate is ever watching and ever working to aid us.

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Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.
/Cherokee Proverb/

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“And here I thought I was being stealthy.”
Jess snorted. “With that girly caw you let out? Did a frog crawl down your throat and die, or what?”

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