As foolish as it seemed, fear was a powerful emotion.

She was desperate to get away from him, desperate because she knew stunts like that were a Hell of a lot safer than being around him.

Your life is on the line, and we all know that deep down, beneath your bravado, you're nothing but a coward.

Fear was something that Sam was relatively adept at handling. She knew the two main kinds like the back of her hand—the fear that makes a person run and the fear that makes them fight. She didn’t particularly care for either, but the worst of the them was the fear that didn’t fit either of those categories—the fear so paralyzing it shut the brain down completely.