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Run first, ' Shane said. 'Mourn later.' It was the perfect motto for Morganville.Rachel Caine
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You're still here. No beer. I'm not corrupting a minor." a minor, " she pointed out. "At least for beer."" Yeah, and by the way, how much does it suck that I'm an adult if I kill somebody, and I'm not if I want a beer?Rachel Caine
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That's kind of a leap, but the Russian judge gave you a nine point five for style, so okay.Rachel Caine
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Now, " said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve.Rachel Caine
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Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -ShaneRachel Caine
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Scoot over, man. I don't like you that much." "Dick. That's not what you said last night."" Bite me.Rachel Caine
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In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded – self-confident. Something she wasn't.Rachel Caine
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Jesus, is Gamache hiring fetuses now?Louise Penny
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Shane sat like a statue if a statue wore headphones and radiated angry coiled tension that made hair stand up on a person's arms. She felt like she was sitting next to an unexploded bomb, and given all of the physics she'd had, she understood what that meant. Talk about potential energy.Rachel Caine
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No bacon for you."" Then no eggs for you. Either of you." Eve glowered at him. "Prisoner exchange?" They glared at each other, then swapped pans and started scooping.Rachel Caine
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You know, ' Shane said twenty minutes later, 'I'd feel a whole lot better about the two of us if you didn't think i was the go-to guy for breaking and entering.' She felt a flash of guilt about the breaking-and-entering part -but she had called him- just before her heart did a funny little painful flip and she heard him say again in her head THE TWO OF US.Rachel Caine
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Let's say that it belong to me as much as it belongs to anyone alive today. If I am, strictly speaking, living. The old word was undead, you know, but aren't all living things undead. I dislike imprecision.Rachel Caine
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What time is it?"" Three a.m. Michael's making a snack. You want anything?"" Um..no. Thanks." She slid off the couch and then stood there like an idiot, unwilling to leave because he was still smiling and..she liked it. "Who won?"" Which game?"" Oh. I guess I was asleep for a while."" Don't worry. We didn't let the zombies get you." This time, his smile was positively wicked. Claire felt it like a hot blanket all over her skin.Rachel Caine
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Okay, this was kissing. Serious kissing. Not just a kiss before moving out, not a good-bye, this was Hello, sexy, and wow, she’d never even suspected that it could feel this way.Rachel Caine
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Claire. Wake up.” She blinked and realized that her head was on Shane’s shoulder, and Michael was nowhere to be seen. Her first thought was, Oh my God, am I drooling? Her second was that she hadn’t realized she was so close to him, snuggled in. Her third was that although Michael’s part of the couch was empty, Shane hadn’t moved away. And he was watching her with warm, friendly eyes. Oh. Oh, wow, that was nice. .Rachel Caine
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We're clear, " she said. "You're kind of a psycho. I get thatRachel Caine