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Why are you limping like that?' Nicholas demanded.' I'm swaggering, ' I informed him.' You look like you're wearing a diaper.' Charming. And I had a crush on this guy. Wait. I had a crush on this guy?' Now what?' he asked. 'You're making weird faces.'' Nothing, ' I said quickly. 'Never mind.Alyxandra Harvey
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If we act like prey, they’ll act like predatorsAlyxandra Harvey
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Her eyes went so wide they nearly bulged. It was probably wrong of me to find that amusing. Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black cape lined with red satin and then hang it over my pillow in a heart-shaped frame.Alyxandra Harvey
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You were at the party on Friday night, weren't you?" I didn't mentioned I'd followed him into the woods. He leaned back in his chair, his legs sprawled out. His boots nudged the bottom ruffle of my skirt. "Aye."Aye? Seriously? Could he be any hotter? Unless he had been looking for his girlfriend at the party. Not hot." I was supposed to meet my cousin, " he elaborated, "but I didn't find her, " Hot again.Alyxandra Harvey
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There was a family joke that Lucy's first words were, "Nicholas is bugging me!Alyxandra Harvey
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Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army--the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.Alyxandra Harvey
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I couldn't convince her that if I had a book with me, I wasn't lonely.Alyxandra Harvey
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Very possibly this was the night my white-knight complex, as Solange put it, would get me killed. Someone had better write a poem about it. It was only fair.Alyxandra Harvey
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With great hotness comes great responsibility.Alyxandra Harvey
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Embroidery?" I sucked at embroidery. Aunt Hyacinth had tried to teach me, but we'd both given it up as a lost cause. Lucy, strangely, had picked it up really quickly and embroidered a tapestry of Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow for my last birthday.Alyxandra Harvey
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..and Lucy." She looked like she might cry.' What about her?'" Lucy smells like food." She nearly gagged saying it.' Sol, all that's normal. Lucy smelled good before I turned, and now she smells even better. But I haven't tried to eat her face and neither will you.'" She's not safe in this house."' Safer than out there, ' I argued, even though I agreed with her. 'Look, you used to eat hamburgers.' She blinked, confused. "So?"'So, did you ever walk through one of the farms at a field party and suddenly try to eat a cow?'" Um, no." Her chuckle was watery but it was better than nothing. "And, ew."' Exactly. You can crave blood and not eat your best friend. .Alyxandra Harvey
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What's the matter with you?" I hissed at her as we followed Kieran and Solange inside.' She's royalty! '" And a vampire, remember?"' Oh yeah, ' Chloe paused. 'Nope, princess trumps vampire.Alyxandra Harvey
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Yeah.You got me throughAlyxandra Harvey
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It seems only fair, " Matthew continued. "A bit of karma, if you will." He twirled the stake again. "Shall we see how long you scream?"" Are you ever going to shut up?" I snapped, fear and irritation filling me in equal measures. "This isn't your monologue, Hamlet. It's the battle scene, in case you've forgotten." His eyes narrowed so fast they nearly sparked. They were the color of honey on fire. One of the others growled like an animal, low in his throat. It made all the hairs on my arms stand straight up. I was going to die for making fun of Shakespeare.My English Lit professor would be so proud.Alyxandra Harvey