If anybody comes to challenge you, we'll kick their ass. We'll find a way to handle Roland. And if the pack Council produces any kittens, we'll give them to Jim to raise., He needs to mellow out anyway.'I looked at him. He took his hands off the wheel and held them apart about six inches. 'Cute fluffy kittens. Just sitting on Jim's lap.

Nobody ever died of being shot by a cookie

You destroyed five million dollars' worth of luxury cars.""Yes, but none of them are wearing human heads as hood ornaments.

You want to get married? I'll marry you right now. Is the gnome a preacher, because I'll do it.""That's a hell of a proposal.""What did he say?" Astamur asked."He wants me to marry him."Astamur relayed it. Atsany waved his pipe and Astamur translated back. Ha!"What?" Curran Snarled."Atsany says you're not ready for marriage. You don't have the right temperament for it."Curran struggled with that for a second"Let me know if your head's going to explode, so I can duck.

So this is what it's about? This is your mature response to go off into the mountains rather than talking about it and have s'mores with a gnome and a mountain man.""Yep""What's your plan for tomorrow? Brunch with a unicorn?

Kate?”I have a superior reaction time. That was why although I shot out of my chair, jumped onto my desk, and attempted to stab the intruder into my office in the throat, I stopped the blade two inches before it touched Andrea’s neck. Because she was my best friend, and sticking knives into your best friend’s windpipe was generally considered to be a social faux pas.Andrea stared at the black blade of the throwing dagger. “That was great,” she said. “What will you do for a dollar?

Tension fled from me. Tomorrow I would worry about Hugh d’Ambray and Andrea andRoland, but now I was simply happy. Aaahh. Home. My place, my smells, my familiar rug under my feet, my kitchen, my Curran in the kitchen chair . . . Wait a damn minute.“You!

I held my hand out. “Give me a grenade.”Andrea pulled open her backpack and slid a grenade into my palm. “Wait until they start shooting the Jeep. Boom comes first, shrapnel flies second. Count to ten before you run in there. And don’t blow the device up.”“Yes, Mother. It’s not my first time.”“That’s the thanks I get for trying to keep you alive, Your Highness.