Bad Blood: (The Naturals #4) (Naturals, The)

the biggest sacrifice isn’t made by the person who gives up her life.” He lowered his forehead to touch mine. “Sometimes, the hardest thing to be is the one who lives.”

the skeleton on the exam table, a decade dead—was Kane Darby.

“He won’t stop her,” Kane said. “Not at first.”

Life is full of drowning people, ready and willing to drown you, too.”

“But Cassie,” Sloane whispered as we stepped into the restaurant. “It is a diner.”

“I do find Cassie borderline tolerable

The Masters can get to anyone, anywhere.

nothing hurts the way hope does when you take it away.

Where’s Laurel?”

“She’s gone, Cassie.

He’d learned not to feel things, to turn everything into a joke, to shrug off revelations that shook his worldview to its core.