"But you and Redding have something. I don't know what it is. I don't blame you for it." On crutches, he couldn't lean toward me. He couldn't reach out and brush the hair out of my face. But something about th ecurve of his lips was more intimate than any touch. "A lot has happened. You have a lot to figure it out. I can be a patient man, Colorado. A devastatingly handsome, roguishly scarred, heartbreakingly courageous, patient man."
i rolled my eyes, but couldn't bite back a smile.
"So take whatever time you need. Figure out how you feel. Figure out if Dean makes you feel the way I do, if he'll ever let you in, and if you want him to, because the next time my lips touch yours, the next time your hands are buried in my hair - the only person you're going to be thinking about is me."
How would I feel about moving to DC ?
"I'm seventeen," I reiterated. "A better question might be how my legal guardians would feel about it."
"You wouldn't be the first minor I've recruited, Cassie. There are work-arounds."
Clearly, he had not met my Nonna.
The truth he'd been dancing around for the past hour was suddenly clear. He and his team, this program- they didn't just want to teach me how to hone my skills. They wanted to use them to catch killers.
Serial killers.
Dean tore his attention away from the photos and forced himself to look at me. Studying mutilated bodies was routine. Talking to me - apparently, that was hard.
Sloane slipped an arm around my waist. "There are fourteen varieties of hugs," she said. "This is one of them.”
Bienvenue dans La voix des libraires, le nouveau podcast des librairies Furet du Nord / Decitre.
Dans ce premier épisode, découvrez les derniers coups de coeur de nos libraires. Si vous vous demandez quel livre lire en ce moment, quelle pépite sera votre prochaine lecture, vous êtes au bon endroit !
Les livres chroniqués, disponibles en librairie, sur decitre.fr (https://www.decitre.fr/) et furet.com (https://www.furet.com/) :
Nom - Constance Debré - Ed. Flammarion
Retour à Malataverne - Pierre Léauté - Ed. Mü
Des sirènes - Colombe Boncenne - Ed. Zoé
Ladies with guns - Olivier Bocquet / Anlor - Ed. Dargaud
Inheritance Games - Jennifer Lynn Barnes - Ed. PKJ
Leviathan - Shiro Kuroi - Ed. Ki-Oon
Petiote - Benoit Philippn - Ed. Les Arènes (à paraitre le 12 mai 2022)
Les nuits bleues - Anne-Fleur Multon - Ed. de l'Observatoire
Peau à peau - Héloïse des Monstiers - Ed. Buchet-Chastel
Le pain perdu - Edith Brück - Ed. du Sous-sol
Une chambre au soleil - John Braine - Ed. du Typhon
S'adapter - Clara Dupont-Monod - Ed. Stock
Une pour toutes - J.L del Socorro - Ed. L'école des loisirs
Suzy Boude - Stéphane Heinrich / Angélique Léone - Ed. Kaléidoscope
La bibliothèque de minuit - Matt Heig - Ed. Mazarine
Musique : Joakim Karud - Longing
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