The first boy was always the hardest.

But maybe that isn't so bad. You can't love anyone that way more than once in a lifetime. It's too hard and it hurts too much when it ends. The first boy is ialways the hardest to get over, Haven. It's just the way the world works.

In the silence that ensued, Mariana turned her gaze on Callie. Ignoring her sister's pleading look, the younger woman offered a smile befitting The Allendale Angel, and said, sweetly, "Callie, it appears that you have a visitor.'

Callie's gaze narrowed. There was truly nothing worse in the wide world than a sister.

How strange it is to have a sister, Valerie thought. Someone you might have been.

What happened to Tomas Mandray?" I asked, the words strangled.
"I realized he wouldn't have gone with me to save you from Prythian.

Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.