I felt a pull toward her even before I actually spotted her in her car and I__ glad I didn__ resist.

He is incredibly handsome. You never realized before how beautiful evil could be.

Adrian smiled and clasped my hands, taking a few steps toward me. "And as for who you are, you__e the same beautiful, brave, and ridiculously smart caffeinated fighter you__e been since the day I met you._ Finally, he put __eautiful_ at the top of his list of adjectives. Not that I should have cared.__weet talker,_ I scoffed. __ou didn__ know anything about me the first time we met.___ knew you were beautiful,_ he said. __ just hoped for the rest.

Hermes visited him in the Underworld a few days before the spring equinox festival, cajoling Hades to come to it.Hades wandered across the fields with him, Kerberos limping along at his side. __o one wants the god of death at their fertility festival.___ure they do. I__e heard plenty of girls sighing over your tasty darkness.___asty darkness. Really.

Fear attracts the darkness. When you have no fear, the darkness fears you.

Once I got home, though, and saw several packages on my front porch, all the crap from the day disappeared. A few had smiley faces on them. Squealing, I grabbed the boxes. Books were inside-- new release books I'd preordered weeks ago.