romantic-adventure

What you must do,_ she continued, __ou will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time.

No one can stop death, Omari. It is normal and certain. And nothing should get in the way of a person__ true destiny.

Please do not mistake me for a twopenny villain. I do nothing without a purpose.

Then it was silent. Heavy now, not the sleepy silence of before. The kind of silence that meant horrifying things.

She was strength and power and so many things he__ pretended for twelve years he didn__ miss, didn__ need.

What could I offer the local bad boy except my livelihood? Oh, I know. My body or my planes! Why didn't I think of that? Would you have preferred that I offer him my body, Nic, because I sure as hell wasn't going to sign over either of my planes!

Listen up, Nic," she said firmly, looking straight into his gray-blue eyes. "If you die on me out here, so help me I'll hold seances and pester you. I won't give you a moment's peace in the hereafter," she threatened in a fierce whisper. Gabrielle O'Hara, River of Dreams

She paused and saw him tense in expectation. He wouldn__ like to hear this, but better from her than one of the others. __ou aren__ the only pilot I have in my service. And you aren__ the only person with a dark past, though the illegal things that you did, you were forced to do by the Core. But I will tell you what I__e told the others. This is your last chance. You screw up with me and you get shipped up river. I don__ offer second chances__ offer last chances.__ope, he didn__ like it. She saw the hand not holding the bottle of beer curl into a fist.Sin and Del, from Sunscapes Trilogy, Book 1: Last Chance