“Were Gabriel and I going to fall in love? Be together forever? Live our lives happily as soul mates? Who the hell knew something like that? Isure didn’t. I can’t see the future.All I knew was that I would love finding out.”

“I knew about loyalty about putting family before all others. I'd already learned some things I'd do to protect my own. I'd withold infomation from the police. I'd use people. I'd lie. If pushed hard........how far would I go.”

“Gabriel?” I said.“Yeah?” His voice was breathless.“Kiss me.”

“I think the correct term for this was ‘pissing contest’, and though I was flattered, I didn’t have time for it.”

“Humidity did terrible things to me. I‘d be much prettier if I lived in the desert.”

“The dumbass?' Justin asked.'Yes, you're not the only one in town. Who knew?”

“Kendra was on Gabriel like a predator on a slab of meat.”