Patricia Briggs - Adam Quotes

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Warren made a noise, the first one I'd heard out of him since we'd come into the room. I'd have been happier if he hadn't sounded scared. "Easy, Warren," Adam told him. "You're safe here. "If you die on us, you won't be," said Kyle with a growl that would have done credit to any of the werewolves in the room.

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I knew he would never leave me, never let me down-because the man had never abandoned anything in his long life. If I hadn't taken the gold rope of our bond, I knew Adam would have sat on me and hog-tied me with it. I liked that. A lot.

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I didn't like anyone except me having their hands all over him. There had been possession in Wolf's touch, and Adam belonged to me.

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If you leave me naked and waiting on the bed without making love to me, I'll— I didn't get to finish the threat. I think it was the word naked, though maybe it was bed, but before I finished my sentence, he was on me. Mercy to Adam

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Mercy? Just a minute, I told Adam. I'm in the middle of a revelation.

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I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.

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Are you going to tell me what that was about? Adam asked as we went back upstairs. Sometime, I told him. When we're telling ghost stories around a campfire, and I want to scare you.

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Wolves eat coyotes," Gordon said[...] If he weren't an old man, I had some rude things I could have said to that. "Yes," observed Adam blandly. "I do." Yep. That was the one that came to mind. And he didn't even blush when he said it. Maybe Gordon would miss the double entendre. But he grinned cheerfully at Adam.

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There is something incredibly arousing about being wanted. I pulled my hand back and sucked in a deep breath. Adam, I said.

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Mine" he said. Adam's eyes narrowed. "I don't think so. She is mine." It would of been flattering, I thought, except that at least one of them was talking about dinner and I wasn't certain about the other.

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We'd spent years as adversaries, two predators sharing territory and a certain, unwelcome attraction. Somehow, during all those years I spent outwardly acquiescing to his demands while making sure I held my own, I'd won his respect. I'd had werewolves love me and hate me, but I'd never had one respect me before. Not even Samuel. Adam respected me enough to act on my suspicions. It meant a lot.

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It was Adam, but he was too late. He couldn't love me anymore. He would be so angry with me. I had to hide. He didn't love me so he might hurt me when he was angry. When he calmed down, that would hurt him. I didn't want him hurting because of me. There was nowhere for a person to hide. So I wouldn't be a person. My eyes fell on the shelves that lined the far back corner. A coyote could hide there.

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