The Chosen (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #15)

by J.R. Ward

around her middle, her face all tense.

It was always better to follow a bumpy course of one’s own than a smooth but intractable trail set by another.

Blay strongly believed that the traditional sex-role thing was bullshit, and that if Lyric wanted to be an ass-kicker like Payne or Xhex, he was on board with that.