Pippa DaCosta

I don__ know if I can.__ splayed my hand on the bulkhead beside Fran's shoulder and looked her in those pretty green eyes. __t__ easier if you don__ think about it. Shut it away, think about something else. Drink, fuck, do what you gotta do. Bury it so damn deep, it can__ touch you. And before long, you__l forget what you were worried about.__er lips turned down at the corners. She closed her eyes and sighed. __s that what you do?___t works._ Or it had. Until recently. Until One somehow made me look at myself though her eyes. Now I had shit going on in my head, like not wanting to let her down. Not wanting to let any of them down. Like this life and my place in it might actually mean something. That kinda thinking would get a man killed. ~ Caleb

Akil, humans have these wonderful little things we like to cling onto, called souls. The jury__ still out as to whether demons have them, I sincerely doubt you do." ~ Muse.

Only a few hairline fractures around his eyes and lips spoke of the torment he__ been through. I wanted to smooth those lines away, and wished it was that easy to erase the scars of our past." ~ Muse, Drowning In The Dark #4 The Veil Series.

People are dying out there, and I__ not faring much better.___orrying about the demise of anonymous people won__ bring them back.__ursing my lips, I planted a hand on a hip. __ow very demon of you.___hank you.___hat wasn__ a compliment.__ Muse & Akil

I should have known he__ be trouble as soon as he walked into my workshop, but I couldn__ have known he__ be the death of me.

You__e not going to fight me, Captain. This is the right call. You know it.__he marched me off the bridge and into the brilliant white passageway. __ou think I__ just going to trust you__l let me go?_ I asked, getting a painful nudge in the back.__ou don__ have a choice._ She was right about that. __elax. I got your back, Cale.___ou__e got a pistol in my back is what you__e got.___ust like old times.__rust her? Well, shit.

We are not so different, and yet we are worlds apart." Ahkeel/Akil, The Veil Series prequel.

One of my earliest memories was of a maze of pale green walls. The corridors never ended, no matter which way I turned. I was running, my feet bare, my paper-thin gown flapping around skinny foal-like legs, and the demons kept on coming. I__ run the maze before, because I always knew which way to turn to find the little clear plastic box. I__ run, and run. Lungs aching, throat burning, my feet slapping against the smooth floor, and the sound of scrabbling claws chased me down. I made it to the box, every time (I__ learned later, there were others who hadn__) and once inside, I__ yank the clear door closed. The demons didn__ see the box. They saw only me, the wraith-like little half-blood girl. They would launch themselves__laws extended, jaws wide, eyes ablaze__nd slam into my box, sending shudders rattling through my bones. They__ snap and snarl, hook their teeth into the box and gnaw at its edges, desperate to get to the feast huddling a few millimeters away. Flooding, the Institute had called it. At first I was afraid, and I learned how to run. Then I was angry, and I learned how to fight with my fists and my element. Then, I got even. I lured those demons into a corner and ambushed them, killing every last one. After countless visits to the maze, after weeks, years, I__ started liking it, and killing became as natural as breathing. It was what I was good at. What I was made for. What I lived for.© Copyright Pippa DaCosta 2016.

Beat me, hurt me, fight me and I__l bounce back, but be nice to me? I folded quicker than a banker in a high-stakes poker game.

Being human was a lot more difficult than it looked. Demon was easy. Demon was simple. Human was_terrifying." Muse

I'm just a wretched half-blood girl caught in a storm."Akil tasted his wine and smiled. "Muse, you are the storm.

But if you cross me again Akil, so-help-me, I__l find a way to kill you this time.__is eyes lit up at the prospect, as though he__ accepted a challenge I didn__ even know I__ laid down. ____ expect nothing less._ Demons; only they can get a cheap thrill from a death threat.

Half demon, half human, wholly f*cked." ~ Muse

The lust for chaos wrenched reason from my mind. She wanted the power I__ called before. She wanted to burn it all; to slice open the veil and summon the fires of hell to dance for her. She burned for it, and so did I." ~ Muse

If you hurt Muse, I will hunt you down, use every rusted weapon I own, cut off your precious parts and feed them to the hellhounds." Ryder

I have not lived for millennia to be bested by a half-blood whore and her puppet prince." ~ Valenti

When demons call you the Mother of Destruction, sh*t gets real." Muse.

I curled my lip at the sight of sizzling human hair and skin clinging to my demon flesh. Damn, I__ have given anything to be back in Boston, sipping chai tea latte." ~ Muse, Ties That Bind, #5 The Veil Series.