Suzanne D. Williams
"You have to live," she whispered. "You can't die on me because it works both ways, you know. You need me to survive, but I need you."
Dumped in the bay off the California coast by an unknown assailant, Elaine Dodge felt her life gradually fade away. But what had it been over the last five years? Miserable. Her adopted mom is dead. Her friends have turned their backs. She should have expected it to end like this.
...He pressed in again, this time, nipping her bottom lip, and the entire room seemed to swallow her, the walls spinning, the floor falling away. Hanging onto him, she descended into a multicolored vision, shades of light she'd never seen filling her head. When her vision cleared, he shone, the purest, transparent white. She laid one hand at the base of his neck, and it flushed red.
"You did this to me," he said, "and I really like it."
..."Who are you?" she asked, hesitant.
She would wake up any minute and find this night a dream. She hadn't gotten stuck on the side of the road in the midst of a downpour. She hadn't been attacked by an unknown assailant, and she wasn't staring at a second man, thinking if he didn't kiss her, she'd lose her mind.
Stranded on the side of the road in a thunderstorm, Delilah Pesche prepared to wait the bad
...The energy coursing through them changed in form, as strong as it'd been, but different. It bound them together, driving him closer, until she could see the fine hairs dusting his chin.
Dagger lowered his hands to his sides. "By the authority of the church and in accordance with the state, I pronounce you husband and wife." No sooner had he spoken then, in a wave of color, he faded from view.
Margot started, searching
...Who was this boy that could stop a bullet with the palm of his hand? And why had someone wanted to kill him?
Headed north to Washington D.C. aboard the wrong bus, Phoebe Faegen turns for help from the handsome boy seated on her left. But his instructions are strange from the start and his ability to stop a shooting with just the palm of his hand, when they arrive at their destination, too much to be believed.
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