So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
Lucky for you, since you’re the most dangerous man I’ve ever met. A sane woman would run away from you, not toward you.
You don’t always have to take it all on, either, you know. The weight of the world. The responsibility for everyone else’s problems. Sometimes it’s okay to let somebody else worry about you.
Never, do you hear me? I will give up my friends, my country, my duty, and even my honor—but never you.
I am needed here. Atlantis can burn in the nine hells for all I care. I have sacrificed enough to Poseidon. My days as high priest are done.
The rebel leader and the priest.
I’ve trusted human women before. Twice. The first died, and the second paid a terrible price and despises me. Never, ever again.
Your magic is unbalanced without the soul-meld
No matter what it takes. Make at least part of him live, and I can find the rest of him somehow. Someday.
You know better than that the only thing about you that scares me is your absence, Alaric
The priest was Quinn's biggest danger of all.
I'm a little tired of protecting people who help the ones trying to conquer them
He'd saved her life and killed her trust. He'd thought it a fair trade, at the time.
Emotion kicked logic’s ass. He was going after Quinn.
Alaric, go after her. Since Daniel forced the blood bond on her, Quinn has been different. Lost. She deserves better than for you to abandon her and, priest or no, you know it.
She’s alive, Alaric. She was wounded, but it was minor,” Alexios said, a rough compassion in his voice. A strange weakness raced through Alaric and he had to fight his own lungs to draw breath. Quinn was wounded. “How minor?” he snarled. “T...
Something in Alaric’s chest tightened painfully at the thought of Quinn, but he refused to allow it to overcome him. She would be fine. She had to be fine. If Quinn were to die, he would have no reason to continue existing.
I don’t care about his quest for redemption. I don’t want him anywhere near Quinn,” Alaric snarled. “I will leave for St. Louis as soon as we adjourn this meeting.”
He shot across the dark and dank room and gently lowered her slight body, which seemed to weigh almost nothing, until she stood with her back to the wall, as he called a shield of water to block her from any danger.
Quinn,” Alaric said quietly. “His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?” “Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it,” she shot back. “We can discuss that later, too. Be my gue...
