“I seem to recall Trinity kicking your ass a time or two, Acari Loren. Easy enough with such a wide target."I hated stooping to such ridiculously adolescent taunts, but sometimes you needed to speak the native tongue.”

“You were banging hard enough to wake the dead.""And you're lovely enough to rouse them.”

“I wouldn't let him distract me. "Your accent gets thicker when you're being...improper.""Improper, is it?""Inappropriate.""Indelicate?" He waggled his brows just before her rounded a corner, disappearing into shadows.”

“I am roots in the earth. I am water that flows. I am grounded. I am Watcher.”

“His eyes were slitted and intense, like he might need to have sex at any moment.”

“He had dirty-blond good looks to match a dirty-good smile. Yes, dirty. There was just enough twinkle in his smiling brown eyes to suggest there might be all manner of naughty-guy impulses rattling around that cute body of his.”

“I didn't trust such general greatness one little bit.”