“Jackie patted her on the shoulder, "you know what you need?"Ash peeked out from between her fingers."Eight hours of rest before tomorrows exam? Bug spray that repels assholes?”

“You smell wonderful,” he told her. “So aroused.” “That's the bug spray,” she said.”

“What's the difference between eccentric and crazy?'She lifted her hands above her head, tapped her zills together, and danced out the door. From over her shoulder she laughed and called out, 'Nobody knows!”

“I shook my head. She kissed my cheek, then on her way out patted Zachary's shoulder in a way that said, If you upset Aura in her weakened state, I will end you.”

“I want you to play for me,” he told her as he passed the violin back.Her elegant fingers gripped the neck of her Stradivarius as she gently pulled it up and rested it on her left shoulder. She turned her chin, so it sat perfectly in the chin rest at the base of the lower bout.“What would you like me to play?” she asked, closing her eyes.“Something you want me to hear.”

“I want to meet the girl of my dreams, and then immediately try to sleep with her—for between six to eight hours.”