Man in A Sentence

    1

    A bookish man with glasses, wearing a white lab coat, opened the door to the small house.

    2

    A brief search of the house yielded neither man.

    3

    A civilian dressed older man stepped forward.

    4

    A little man did all the talking and introductions.

    5

    A man Dean didn't recognize turned around and shook his hand before starting the old car.

    6

    A man named Dawkins bought the mine from the Rowland estate.

    7

    A man of few words, Gabriel hadn't gotten used to the political side of his job yet.

    8

    A man stopped to talk to us and tried to pat Bumpus.

    9

    A man was waiting for me at the old house - a man with red hair.

    10

    A man, not the usual wimpy social lady, was the culprit who organized the hasty departure.

    11

    A man's face, a woman in the hospital on her death bed, their children surrounding them.

    12

    A small pulse of power, and the man dropped.

    13

    A woman was screaming, another man shouting.

    14

    After a childhood filled with foster homes, she feared getting too comfortable, even in the home of the man who adopted her twelve years ago, when she was ten.

    15

    Again the red headed man crossed her mind.

    16

    Alex eyed the man suspiciously as he said goodbye and walked away.

    17

    Alex glanced from her to the man, his face revealing absolutely no expression.

    18

    Alex might be alive in body, but he was no longer the man she had married.

    19

    Alex, staring at his bloody hands after the man ran out the door.

    20

    Amid boxes, lamps, and glassware of every description sat the old man, atop a trunk, snuggled between the two maiden ladies from Indiana.

    21

    An elegantly dressed man in his sixties identified as Assistant Director Carlton Summerfield had taken charge.

    22

    An older man with dementia left to rot and finally die in an old folks' home.

    23

    An older, harmless-looking man with white hair and beautiful emerald eyes stood near the door, holding out a phone.

    24

    And he loved Billy, perhaps enough to kill the man he thought caused Billy's death.

    25

    And she'd never demean herself to that man.

    26

    And the man stabbed Alex with a knife.

    27

    And this … thing—" Damian indicated the man with red eyes "—is Charles.

    28

    And yet, the man who stabbed him was behind bars, and the person who hired him had confessed.

    29

    Another woman, a very tall blond, stood a few paces back, a smile on her face, watching the old man.

    30

    Apparently the man had never entered the house and no damage was done.

    31

    Are you sure it was a dead man you saw?

    32

    As handsome as he was, her eyes were compelled to the man beside him.

    33

    As he began to ramble on about Mrs. Langstrom's cooking, Mrs. Lincoln jumped down and stood on hind legs, stretching up the young man's pant leg.

    34

    As she crept up the stairs of the wine cellar to the kitchen, she couldn't help feeling troubled at leaving the man in the basement.

    35

    As the man took her arm to help her stand, his haggard face appeared in yet another vision.

    36

    At first she thought he might have been a visitor of the other man in the room, but the family said he had asked for Alex, and had stayed with him for a little while.

    37

    At last, she forced herself to lie down and tried not to think of the man named Jule, whose soul still lingered.

    38

    At the first hint of below freezing weather, Howie was on the job, covering everything and reading up on all preventive measures known to man.

    39

    Backing the car up, she watched the man with the sword drop to his knees and slowly stand.

    40

    Before she recovered from the shock, the man knocked the phone from her hand and grabbed her arm, jerking her toward him.

    41

    Behind them the red-headed man followed for only a few seconds before turning back toward the house.

    42

    Beside the nurse who was busy collecting equipment, there was a man in a suit standing by the door.

    43

    Bianca asked, surprised the man had feelings.

    44

    Bianca cried, seeing the man as well.

    45

    Bianca jumped at the voice and peered out of the kitchen at the man named Darian.

    46

    Both Deans heard it but the old man appeared not to have noticed.

    47

    Both men felt the old man had probably killed him, but Westlake's brief disclosure was insufficient to pursue the matter and as both men were dead, there was little incentive to do so.

    48

    Brandon Westlake was portrayed as a delusional old man bent on killing any and all witnesses to his half-century-old deed.

    49

    But did any man deserve death?

    50

    But how would the man know Alex was in the hospital?

    51

    But I sure took a close look at my old man's will.

    52

    But she couldn't help feeling as if she'd never truly known the man she loved until someone else told her what she missed.

    53

    But sorry, they were as in the dark as the man on the street as to source or circumstance.

    54

    But then you were so convinced the bones belonged to that man Josh that I decided to let matters play out.

    55

    But there was another reason she dared not leave her father, one she feared voicing even to the man before her.

    56

    But they were polite, to a man.

    57

    But this man, an enemy who had—up until now—wanted to kill her, left her feeling a little less alone.

    58

    But you have one man you can sleep around with.

    59

    But, alas, the danger was too great and I am a cautious man.

    60

    By day he was the man she married – less a voice.

    61

    Carmen was waiting for Alex outside the clinic with Destiny one day when the red-headed man strolled up to the car.

    62

    Claire was all that remained of his brother, and he'd loved her out of respect for a man whose death he'd never been able to accept.

    63

    Could Lori have sent the man?

    64

    Damian disappeared, followed by the man named Jonny and the woman with him.

    65

    Damian was the strongest man Two had ever met.

    66

    Damian wondered what the hell Sofi had figured out that would send the man before him into the teenage-like fit.

    67

    Damian's brother was somewhere inside the scarred shell of a man before him.

    68

    Darian had been a shell of a man when Sofi found him several months ago.

    69

    Dean climbed the stairs to the old man's room.

    70

    Dean could picture him and the old man breaking into the storage building in the dead of night.

    71

    Dean couldn't think of any reason not to confirm its authenticity to the old man and did so.

    72

    Dean didn't even offer a quip about Fred's tightness with a buck and his moth-eaten purse as the old man called over a waitress to do the duties.

    73

    Dean didn't press the old man for whatever he knew nor did Fred offer any information.

    74

    Dean explained that the miniature remains belonged to a very bad man.

    75

    Dean had no intention of specifically mentioning Billy Langstrom, though the young man's death was on everyone's mind.

    76

    Dean had trouble remembering who was who but all were of like mind in their affection for the old man who turned up the charm meter a notch or two.

    77

    Dean left the cell confident that the old man was coping, but he was beginning to mirror Fred's concern with his past.

    78

    Dean paid no mind that the old man wasn't in the know about the latest Hollywood styles and so informed him.

    79

    Dean planned to cruise the town later in hopes of locating the young man.

    80

    Dean recognized the man but didn't know his name.

    81

    Dean was sure the old man and his dilapidated old Scout had done this a thousand times before.

    82

    Dean wondered if the young man knew the girl's condition.

    83

    Did I trust this man I'd never met, enough to hand over all our identities?

    84

    Did the man stab the wrong person?

    85

    Do you have any idea how good it makes a man feel to have a beautiful woman look at him that way?

    86

    Do you know who the man was?

    87

    Don't leave me here alone with that mad man on the loose!

    88

    Dustin didn't look like the kind of man who would like anything, let alone presents.

    89

    Dustin escorted the man into the mansion, and Pierre wrapped an arm around her as she sagged.

    90

    Dusty eyed the wiry man coolly, and Damian chuckled.

    91

    Dusty glanced at his long-time Miami Station Chief, the handsome Hispanic man who looked as severe as he was lighthearted.

    92

    Dusty spun again and continued walking, aware of the anxious young man at his heels.

    93

    Fat man in black stifled a laugh while the acting sheriff glowered.

    94

    Fred just snorted, but Dean noted the old man didn't deny the question.

    95

    God, he was an evil man!

    96

    Green smoke swirled from the man's ears and mouth, forming a fog around Gabe's hand before crystallizing into a small emerald.

    97

    Han stayed with her, not moving until two Guardians—a raven-haired man with a quick smile and a brooding blond—approached.

    98

    Han was as big as the man before her, and if he feared him … Damian's gaze swept over her.

    99

    Harmony bent and lifted the dead man in a fireman's carry.

    100

    Has this man hurt you?

    101

    Have you found out who the dead man is?

    102

    He began to cry, the soul-deep weeping of a man who'd lost all and spent his tormented life in a level of hell she'd never be able to imagine.

    103

    He could forgive her for what the man did – that was his doing, but not for what Lori intended to do to Carmen.

    104

    He detailed the man's selection of clothes and the contents of his medicine cabinet as he shaved.

    105

    He dialed and spoke in a different language to the man on the other end.

    106

    He didn't look like a rich man, but then, what did a rich man look like?

    107

    He didn't need this type of drama, and she was too good for a man like him in her life.

    108

    He didn't remember when this man had arrived or why he was supposed to remember him.

    109

    He doesn't seem to be the man we suspected.

    110

    He faced the small man with glowing green eyes.

    111

    He followed the man with eyes as green as the moss in the corner of his room down the busy hallways, unaffected by the men who spit on him or shoved him as he went.

    112

    He had no control of his own powers, and he'd not yet been tested in a confrontation with the man who enslaved him.

    113

    He had no emotions, like a man in a Halloween mask.

    114

    He knelt beside them, staring at the horribly scarred man.

    115

    He made his way through the crowded halls, grunting under the weight of the man.

    116

    He may be a very bad man but we won't know until we have a friend of ours check the license plate.

    117

    He opened the box to reveal a man's platinum signet ring with the half-moon, half-sun, and arrow symbol neatly carved on its head.

    118

    He planted a hand on the chest of each man and pushed them a part.

    119

    He provided details on the hotel, time and room number where the man allegedly stayed.

    120

    He reached for her, but his scarred hand passed through hers, as if all that remained of him was a ghost of the man he'd been.

    121

    He really wasn't a man of detail, which was why she was so surprised to see him working as a financial planner.

    122

    He saw the man who had called him pacing as Laney had indicated.

    123

    He saw the woman come into focus, and the man with mossy eyes released him.

    124

    He seems like a nice man.

    125

    He sensed the visions in her head, not surprised to see his own black memories playing on the screens on the back of her eyelids along with a dark nightmare of a man in a corner crying.

    126

    He stared into Darian's gold eyes, seeking some sign of the man he'd known.

    127

    He stopped Fred when the old man began to excuse himself.

    128

    He studied the small man infatuated with his phone.

    129

    He too congratulated the old man.

    130

    He turned to see the small man with bright green eyes that glowed in the moonlight.

    131

    He turned to see the young man's face flushed this time with anger, his eyes glittering.

    132

    He turned, not surprised to see the small, grandfatherly man standing deeper in the alley.

    133

    He wanted to make sure he had time to hook up with Billy Langstrom and question the young man, whom he knew would be there.

    134

    He wanted to warn the young man to wear a bulletproof vest and keep his hands in his lap for protection.

    135

    He was a puzzle, a man with no memory beyond waking up in the morning.

    136

    He was accompanied by Dustin and two other men, one she knew as Sasha, a man who'd struck her with his devotedness to his family, and Levi, a man who'd been present in many of his pre-Schism memories.

    137

    He was built from the same mold—large and muscular, the kind of man more fitted to military special forces or UFC prizefighting than financial planning.

    138

    He was just a nice person who happened to be a man.

    139

    He was much more cordial now that he was immersed in what amounted to a major man hunt.

    140

    He was not a pretty boy but a man with rugged, bad-boy beauty and a slow sensuality about his movement that made her heart skip a beat despite her pain.

    141

    He was older, in his mid-thirties, and the light took longer to appear in his eyes than it had the younger man.

    142

    He was the kind of man she wouldn't think twice about running from, though the intelligence gleaming in his soulful brown eyes gave him away as something more.

    143

    He was the sexiest man she'd ever seen, and the swirling aura of command only amplified his physical appeal.

    144

    He was trying to put a move on me, the silly man.

    145

    He was, by far, the most handsome man she had ever seen.

    146

    He wasn't a man.

    147

    He wasn't a tall man, but he walked with the confidence of one.

    148

    He wasn't to that point yet, and he had to figure out just how to protect the woman from the man she considered her own father.

    149

    He watched a man and woman grab Eric when he went to the bathroom and with her hand over the boy's mouth, push him into a car.

    150

    He wished the old man would spit it out, whatever was bugging him.

    151

    He withdrew, not looking at the shocked man standing in the kitchen doorway.

    152

    He wondered if the man was his soul, weeping for his brother.

    153

    He would have hauled Fred along for company, but the old man had a date, so Dean was on his own.

    154

    He'd always known Pumpkin was a flake, but he honestly liked the young man and flakiness wasn't the worst trait carried by the young and the restless.

    155

    He'd claimed someone would try to kill her, and the man they sought was here.

    156

    He'd never been so thrilled to see a dead man as he was that moment.

    157

    He's a nice young man and I feel would make a far less labor intensive mate than Howie would have proved to be.

    158

    He's a personable young man and a whale of a basketball player.

    159

    He's a very vindictive man.

    160

    He's just like our old man.

    161

    Heart pounding, she stared at the woman and man before her.

    162

    Her beauty was cool and classic, like that of the man before her.

    163

    Her eyes snapped closed, her last vision that of the most striking man she'd ever seen.

    164

    Her eyes went to the chiseled features of the man sitting near her.

    165

    Her father had disappeared into thin air with the body of the man he called Jule.

    166

    Her father hated this man for some reason, and being near him put them both in danger.

    167

    Her father said the man came to kill her, yet she was still alive.

    168

    Her gaze was riveted to the man before her.

    169

    Her presence would have the same calming effect on Dusty, who was the most wound-up man Jule knew.

    170

    Her thoughts returned to the dead man alone in the dark room.

    171

    Here in dwells an old man with whom I would like to converse.

    172

    Here she sat, covered in blood, drugged, one day from being all out crazy, then kidnapped—and the sight of the man before her turned her on.

    173

    His command was quiet and firm, but Sofia knew no man in the room would disobey a man like him.

    174

    His father looked like a tall man.

    175

    His gaze fell to the silvery ring the man before him wore.

    176

    His gaze was stormy, but there was more there, a profound sadness that made the large man more human.

    177

    His gaze went back to the dead man Rhyn wanted him to find.

    178

    His old man was a miner and lived in Ouray when Fitzgerald was a kid—a snot-nosed bully, I suspect.

    179

    His scent drove her body wild, the mix of sweat, darkness, and man.

    180

    How could you tell it was a man?

    181

    How did the man you were discussing before dinner get caught, do you know?

    182

    How much more did the man know about her routine?

    183

    How sick was the man who kept his former enemy as a slave?

    184

    I am a man of discretion.

    185

    I am a very wealthy man.

    186

    I asked without answering the man's question.

    187

    I asked, just as a stocky bearded man dressed in a brown religious smock came out of a side door.

    188

    I believe … I hope … that man is still inside of him somewhere.

    189

    I can only applaud this man's ability to deduce.

    190

    I couldn't tell if the look he gave me was incredulity or concern but he grabbed my arm and led me outside where a suited man who must have topped six foot five was walking toward us.

    191

    I didn't say you were – and I didn't say what I was doing with that man, either.

    192

    I guess if you give a man the ability to build his own mate, he'll make her a tramp.

    193

    I know, Darian! she replied, hoping the man in her head didn't distract her.

    194

    I lost it when I was running from the man with the sword.

    195

    I really don't know any more than the man on the street.

    196

    I shook my head in wonder at this man.

    197

    I started checking my old man's papers and I found these reports— way back when he first bought the property.

    198

    I think the man who did it may have taken my wife and a young girl.

    199

    I told her what we found and that we believed her and we're closer to finding the man's identity.

    200

    I tried to think how I'd make such a request without getting Merrill Cooms' right hand man in trouble.

    201

    I understand from Dawkins' son his old man was paying Josh pretty well to be his mine manager—up until August of 1961 when Josh disappeared.

    202

    I wanted to see what you would do when confronted with the man you thought you were going to return to, he replied.

    203

    I was afraid he'd bite the man and I'd get in big trouble.

    204

    I wonder if it was that sweet man Joseph Dawkins?

    205

    I'm an old man.

    206

    I'm good friends with a very troubled man.

    207

    I'm not dealing with the FBI, I'm dealing with Daniel Brennan, recent man of leisure.

    208

    I'm okay with you running him over, the man with the cool blue eyes said.

    209

    If a man could be more consoling, I've not met him.

    210

    If a woman says no and a man does it anyway, isn't that rape?

    211

    If he'd been talking about any other man, she would have doubted his words.

    212

    If I had, I'd be a rich man, wouldn't I?

    213

    If it was so valuable, why didn't old man Dawkins develop it?

    214

    If she had a choice of what to believe, she'd believe Jule, a man she barely knew.

    215

    If she hadn't screamed, maybe the man would have taken what he wanted and left.

    216

    If the man didn't freeze down there, he'd die at the hands of her father and his strange delusion that this man wanted her dead.

    217

    If the men around her were predators, the man who entered next was their alpha.

    218

    If there were remains of a man in that mine, I would think you'd want to know who he was.

    219

    If you're begging for the old man, don't bother.

    220

    If you're half the man everyone tells me you are, you'll send Han some flowers.

    221

    In France there once lived a famous man who was known as the Marquis de Lafayette. When he was a little boy his mother called him Gilbert.

    222

    In the time that he had been home, he never asked about the man who stabbed him, nor the situation with Lori.

    223

    Incidentally, he supposedly came on the radar as a result of a tip from this man or woman everyone's read about; the so-called psychic tipster person.

    224

    Instead, she watched a man many, many times her strength gently clean the blood from her arm in unhurried, methodical strokes.

    225

    Is there some way to restrict the man from seeing Alex unless I'm here?

    226

    Isn't any young man capable of restraint—responsibility?

    227

    It brought a further smile to the old man's face.

    228

    It didn't matter who called them as long as the man was put where he could do no more harm.

    229

    It made no sense, but neither did the sudden craving for peanut butter that dragged her to the kitchen, where yet another man she wanted to avoid was lounging.

    230

    It scared the man.

    231

    It was a man too familiar to be a stranger, with beautiful purple eyes, a small frame, and a face without emotion.

    232

    It was a man, in a shirt.

    233

    It was a real skeleton—of a man.

    234

    It was a strange thing for a man to say.

    235

    It was a young man's—or woman's—game, although Dean doubted he'd have joined the contest, at least not willingly, even in his careless years.

    236

    It was dark, cold, and the shots hit the man with lopsided shoulders, dropping him dead to the ground.

    237

    It was not just any dead man, but the right one.

    238

    It was the man he'd seen talking to Ginger Dawkins at the Farmer's Market on Sunday.

    239

    It was the man's turn to nod.

    240

    It was the same man, she was sure of it.

    241

    It was when man interfered that things got out of balance.

    242

    It wrenched open, and a man in a black trench coat Damian's size looked her over once.

    243

    Jake cleaved in two by a maniacal man with a sword.

    244

    John Luke Grasso is our man.

    245

    Jonny wouldn't listen to his nagging sister, but he'd darned well listen to a man as terrifying as Dusty could be.

    246

    Jule drew a deep breath and faced the small, grandfatherly man with eyes the color of an Irish meadow.

    247

    Jule sensed a great deal of turmoil behind his calm features and pitied the man.

    248

    Jule wasn't the type of man who worried about anything, and fear slid through her.

    249

    Jule, whose soul had somehow lingered in her body when she'd touched him, and who had become the only man she'd ever felt safe around.

    250

    Just when I start to like you … you know, it's amazing even a man who's thousands of years old can act like a twelve-year-old.

    251

    Leave it to a man to avoid expressing how he felt, but it had to make him feel less of a man.

    252

    Let me put my man on the line.

    253

    Linda flashed her a strained smile that made her feel welcome for the first time in a week before the pretty brunette gave the blond man, Lon, a hug and kiss.

    254

    Man up and tell me in person.

    255

    Maybe every man out there was like Aaron, unable to commit to one woman.

    256

    Maybe he had a harem of women at his beck and call, but she couldn't see herself with any other man.

    257

    Maybe the man in the picture wasn't his father.

    258

    Maybe the man owns a dog himself and Bumpus smelled the scent on him.

    259

    Maybe the man was driving Lori's car.

    260

    Maybe this man had a seedy past – or present, life.

    261

    Mostly meant the old man was in jail again, or they was looking to find him and put him there.

    262

    My old man beat me like a tom-tom at an Indian dance and he didn't need that much of an excuse.

    263

    Next I was shown a photograph of a chubby cheeked man about forty, with short hair and a six o'clock shadow.

    264

    No one wanted to go back to the house until the man was apprehended.

    265

    No woman would ever be more than second to a man like that, but being the woman who was second in his world sounded better than anything else she'd ever wanted.

    266

    Nobody knows where the man is and even if he's been in there a long, long time, someone must care about him, or at least maybe did back then, when it happened.

    267

    Nothing was learned from the brief visit that contradicted what the man had said to me.

    268

    Now there was life and light in his eyes, even if he wasn't quite the man Jule remembered.

    269

    Of course, since Lori had hired the man who stabbed him, it might not be a good idea.

    270

    On Thursday of the third week, she arrived at the hospital and walked into the room he shared with another man.

    271

    One morning a distinguished looking Spanish man was walking out of the room as she entered.

    272

    One of the monsters pulled off its head to reveal a man.

    273

    One was of medium height and slender, an older man with sharp green eyes the color of forest moss who seemed out of place in the middle of the room.

    274

    Our man must have spent some time digging.

    275

    Panic and tears soon drained her of energy, and she stared listlessly at the bloodied ceiling until the man in the corner stirred.

    276

    Papa, there was a man in our house who tried to kill me.

    277

    Pumpkin and some of Billy's friends thought there might be more to the young man's death than reported.

    278

    Roger was a tiny man, no taller than Cynthia, with snowy white hair and sparkling blue eyes.

    279

    Say you're a world class swimmer and spot a drowning man.

    280

    Sensing similar distress in the man before her, she sat down.

    281

    She blinked, shocked when he walked through the man with the green eyes as if he weren't there.

    282

    She collapsed onto her bed and sobbed, the man in the corner sobbing with her.

    283

    She couldn't get over seeing a grown man acting like a teenager.

    284

    She dodged and rolled as the man reached for her again.

    285

    She felt his fear and squeezed her eyes closed, the man in her arms colliding with the man hiding in the corner of her mind.

    286

    She felt the sense of being centered for the first time in her life and knew it was because of the man before her.

    287

    She has begun seeing someone; a young man who does grounds keeping work at the Country Club and is a half dozen years her junior.

    288

    She held her head in her hands, tormented by his pain without understanding how she was supposed to help a dead man.

    289

    She knew this man.

    290

    She lay still, the man in the corner so silent she had to look several times to make sure he was still there.

    291

    She looked down, both thrilled by the idea of an eternity with the man who made her feel whole and horrified at what her father told her.

    292

    She lowered her gaze at the heated look from the man who drove her crazy every other minute of her day.

    293

    She never mentioned Lori or the man who had stabbed him – or anything else unpleasant.

    294

    She patted the pocket in her skirt containing the paper on which Jule had scribbled down the phone number of the towering man before her.

    295

    She placed the medallion around her neck and admired it in the mirror, vowing not to think of the man whose presence plagued her.

    296

    She recognized Damian and Darian as they neared and crept closer to Jule at the sight of the strange man with red glowing eyes.

    297

    She saw Damian watch the new king get his tattoo as a rite of passage, saw it again as Claire made love to the man meant to be her husband, saw it in Isac's vision as he hacked the tattooed man apart.

    298

    She saw the thaw from the cactus daring anyone to touch him to the man she'd spoken to on the phone.

    299

    She shook out the sexual energy running through her and turned on a light, not wanting to be alone in the dark while the dead man in her thoughts began to sob once more.

    300

    She stared at him, not sure what to say or think about finding a man chained to her basement wall.

    301

    She stared at the towering man with red eyes, not sensing him at all.

    302

    She started to drive home then thought of the man she and Jule both tried to kill.

    303

    She started to the table then stopped, unable to dismiss the feeling of the man's arms around her or what she'd felt when they touched.

    304

    She still felt the man named Jule, and he was here.

    305

    She stood with a tall, good-looking man with a rounded haircut that might have been stylish somewhere but to Dean looked silly.

    306

    She stopped a safe distance from him, unable to reconcile the man on the phone with the man before her.

    307

    She strained against the man again.

    308

    She told him the news and all the sunshine left the old man's smile.

    309

    She took a step back, uncertain what the man was but aware her instincts were at a scream.

    310

    She turned and gasped, staring at the large man before her.

    311

    She turned to face him, surprised to find the man who'd almost killed her earlier.

    312

    She turned to face the small man and gasped.

    313

    She turned, startled to find the man in front her of the same make and mold as Damian's men.

    314

    She twisted in her chair to see a man near the dark windows whose eyes were the color of her bright purple Easter dress.

    315

    She wanted him, the man behind the titles and the power.

    316

    She was brutally murdered by the same man who killed young girls in Delaware, Alabama and several other states.

    317

    She was in jeans and a man's dress shirt, her most unrevealing outfit to date.

    318

    She was looking forward to meeting this man.

    319

    She wasn't able to reconcile the creature that turned her Immortal with the man before her.

    320

    She wasn't sure she'd seen a man as big as he was anywhere but on the TV.

    321

    She wasn't sure what she expected when she faced him, but it wasn't the gangly young man with large, uncertain brown eyes.

    322

    She willed herself not to think of the man named Jule trapped somewhere in the house.

    323

    She wondered if the dead man in her head, Darian, felt this way when he cried.

    324

    She would never give this man the visions he wanted!

    325

    She'd given relationship advice to the woman who condemned her to Hell, advice meant to help snag the heart of a man she hadn't stopped loving.

    326

    She'd had never felt overwhelmed by a man before, and she'd certainly never been a woman who felt weak-kneed!

    327

    She'd hoped not to lose the man she loved as well.

    328

    She'd never been turned on by a look, though if anyone could do it, the intense man beside her could.

    329

    She'd never seen a man as perfectly honed as he was.

    330

    She'd never seen a man so strong, and she couldn't imagine talking to him without remembering how beautiful that body was.

    331

    She'd sensed more danger from her father than from the man before her.

    332

    Sit your ass down, Linda said, planting her small form between them and physically pushing the man who towered over her.

    333

    So did fat man.

    334

    So if you had come home and that man was there, you'd respect my privacy, right?

    335

    Sofia darted off the table, staring at him as he entered, trailed by Two and the man with green eyes.

    336

    Sofia jerked from her place beside her window, not sure which voice came from her head and which from the handsome man before her.

    337

    Sofia was afraid to ask where she was, who the man was before her.

    338

    Something about Damian, the man who made kiri cry.

    339

    Something about him made her feel comfortable, or she wouldn't be sitting alone with a man dressed like the angel of death on the beach after dark, revealing secrets she didn't tell her boyfriend of two years.

    340

    Something about the man made her feel safe, and the warm electricity in her body made her sleepy.

    341

    Sometimes I think you're not a nice man.

    342

    Sprinkled in the assortment of oldies were a few exceptions—two couples both named Dawkins, and Pumpkin Green, a young man taking a break from his cross country hike to California in support of the homeless, or so he claimed.

    343

    Talon brought in some man to see me.

    344

    Talon entered, followed by another man.

    345

    That man came in again this morning.

    346

    That man wanted to kill you.

    347

    That man will never bother you again, he said.

    348

    That was when she saw the man.

    349

    That young man has been in the water fight for years.

    350

    The armory was not the collection of a wealthy connoisseur; this was the personal armory of a man accustomed to killing often.

    351

    The black man, the passenger spotted in the stolen Buick, had been apprehended when he returned to the vehicle to retrieve his overnight satchel.

    352

    The blurry man lifted her other arm and bit into it.

    353

    The bones—there's a chance they belonged to a man who may have gotten a high school girl pregnant.

    354

    The clock was ticking on the young man's stay.

    355

    The conversation between her father and the man who should've killed her rattled around in her thoughts as she returned to the door.

    356

    The Darian he remembered had never been brooding or hesitant like this man.

    357

    The Dark One felt like a man.

    358

    The dead man was getting annoying.

    359

    The death visions, the distrust everyone on the planet had for a soul-reader, the inability to eat … they were nothing compared to helping a man find his soul again.

    360

    The door opened, and a different, blond man looked them over before stepping back.

    361

    The door was wrenched open, and a man pointed the gun at her.

    362

    The fat man spoke for the first time.

    363

    The first man was in his prime, and his eyes crinkled in a genuine smile when he clasped hands with Dustin.

    364

    The girl remained unconscious as the man drove away.

    365

    The hoard represented thousands of man hours yet all their efforts proved unsuccessful.

    366

    The large man in black with lopsided shoulders and an executioner's hood pressed himself into a corner.

    367

    The little man shook his bald head.

    368

    The low growl drew her attention behind her, where the red-eyed man materialized beside Damian.

    369

    The man approaching her had nearly reached her, and she huddled into a tighter ball.

    370

    The man at the hospital was built like Alex.

    371

    The man before her looked pretty human himself, with beautiful brown eyes and a body unlike any she'd seen before.

    372

    The man before her was from before time, before life, before everything.

    373

    The man before her was unwavering, and she had the impression of everything she was not and everything she needed to be whole.

    374

    The man beside her hesitated and then obeyed.

    375

    The man beside her was Vory.

    376

    The man gazing back at him was wiry and lean with angled features and swirling gold eyes.

    377

    The man grabbed her ankle and she kicked him with her other foot.

    378

    The man had a vindictive streak as wide as the valley, no doubt there.

    379

    The man had found him in the hospital.

    380

    The man hiding in the corner of her mind, he whose death plagued Damian for thousands of years.

    381

    The man in her head just wouldn't leave her alone.

    382

    The man in the corner of her mind stopped clawing at the edges of her thoughts and chose that moment to speak to her.

    383

    The man in the corner was tall with eyes that swirled gold like Damian's had.

    384

    The man in the executioner uniform dumped her onto a familiar surgical table in a room that stank of blood.

    385

    The man in the executioner's hood left while Jilian, the man with midnight hair and eyes, approached.

    386

    The man in whose arms she lay was not only her husband by Immortal and demon laws but the Dark One who turned her into a demon.

    387

    The man jerked the knife out and darted around Alex and out the door.

    388

    The man just nodded but didn't comment further.

    389

    The man looked like an ancient Greek prince with blond hair and chiseled features.

    390

    The man lumbered toward the door.

    391

    The man named Damian still watched her.

    392

    The man rose and came over to Dean's table.

    393

    The man standing in the weedy area of the lot was tall and thick, dressed in a trench coat, black clothing and heavy boots.

    394

    The man stepped out and those piercing blue eyes questioned her silently from under furrowed bows.

    395

    The man stretched out his legs in front of him.

    396

    The man took one peek at the bone and identified it as a left-hand pinkie.

    397

    The man was at the house when I left, but his truck wasn't there.

    398

    The man was in his prime with silver hair and dark eyes, a handsome face, and a body as muscular as Talon's.

    399

    The man was run down by a detective from After.

    400

    The man was there because Lori had sent him.

    401

    The man waved a knife at her, an evil smile on his lips.

    402

    The man who caused all this worry was still free.

    403

    The man who spoke snatched her arms from behind and shoved her into the kitchen.

    404

    The man with eyes the color of the moss in his room materialized from the shadows.

    405

    The man with green eyes leaned over to Two, whispering to him.

    406

    The man with green eyes was waiting for him in the hall and touched his arm.

    407

    The man with mossy eyes turned down a corner and vanished from his sight and thoughts.

    408

    The man with the green eyes was suddenly behind him, watching her.

    409

    The man with verdant eyes stood beside him, watching her.

    410

    The man, dressed in slacks and sport shirt, was entering the newly renovated Beaumont Hotel.

    411

    The man's arm came back and then forward in a jab.

    412

    The man's face was red with shame this time.

    413

    The middle-aged man with bright green eyes standing in his study looked harmless.

    414

    The mine sits on a few hundred acres old man Dawkins owned.

    415

    The mixed news produced a sense of relief that Martha was, according to Fred, temporarily safe, but she seethed at what she saw as Fitzgerald's vindictiveness at attacking them through the old man.

    416

    The monster in the corner of her mind was a man, shrouded in darkness.

    417

    The next morning she came in earlier, hoping to catch the man before he left.

    418

    The next time the man came to visit, they were supposed to tell him he couldn't see Alex unless Carmen was there.

    419

    The old man excused himself and followed Dean to the kitchen.

    420

    The old man looked concerned.

    421

    The old man looked defeated, with all his natural feistiness absent, left outside in the sunshine.

    422

    The old man looks at Howie like puss on a pudding and Howie doesn't know why; it's really tense.

    423

    The old man said nothing but shook his hand.

    424

    The old man sat crumpled in the grotto where Martha's bones had rested.

    425

    The old man sighed, looking every bit his age.

    426

    The old man smiled as he poured another drink.

    427

    The old man smiled as he stomped on the brake.

    428

    The old man was careful of privacy and territory and would take nothing without first asking.

    429

    The old man was still dressed in a dark suit after attending the funeral.

    430

    The only reason she could think of was that the man didn't want anyone to suspect him.

    431

    The phone rang more than a dozen times before a man with groggy voice answered.

    432

    The red headed man stood in front of her, lust in his eyes and smile.

    433

    The second traitor came soon after, a man whose past stunned her.

    434

    The sheriff won't be a happy man.

    435

    The small group moved more hurriedly now and the man said something to Betsy and shoved her forward toward an emergency exit.

    436

    The stocky man was hooded, wore a mask and was already in the room!

    437

    The three left for the school office; Betsy, with a slight smile on her face, Molly looking excited and Julie wondering if she was dead man walking.

    438

    The truth settled into the pit of her stomach, along with the realization that she meant what she'd said—she would do whatever it took to free the man she loved.

    439

    The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

    440

    The words were too painful, and by the predatory stillness of the man across from her, she was terrified of what he'd do if she said it again.

    441

    The young man drew away from the table.

    442

    The young man rose and stormed to the library door.

    443

    The young man sulked in, humbled in hoops by high school star Billy Langstrom.

    444

    The young man's face paled even more, until he was as white as his bleached hair.

    445

    Their history was too personal for her to feel uncomfortable standing near-naked to a man who'd had a crush on her for a while.

    446

    Then again, he was a man, and he didn't pretend to understand a woman's mind.

    447

    There are numerous side roads but this is becoming a massive man hunt.

    448

    There must be some record of the man.

    449

    There was a large man's tee shirt lying on the floor and I hurriedly put it on.

    450

    There was a pause before the man on the other end answered.

    451

    There was only one thing that could make such a cold man so upset.

    452

    There were definitely two people in the car but he said one was a man.

    453

    They called him metal man.

    454

    They caught the man running through the buffalo pasture, with Brutus barking and nipping at his heels.

    455

    They reached a second foyer where the man in the trench stood next to a caramel-colored man covered in blood.

    456

    They still hadn't caught the red-headed man, but they had a regular patrol, so Carmen took Jonathan and Destiny home with her.

    457

    They were the kind of fangs a man fantasized about, not too large to cause damage but sharp enough to offer an exquisite combination of pleasure and pain if she nipped him.

    458

    This had to be the man her father warned her about!

    459

    This man's look was considering, as if he were trying to memorize her features in case he needed the information in the future.

    460

    This time, he wasn't a fever-riddled man incapable of defending her.

    461

    This was the kind of man whose depravity Darkyn preyed on.

    462

    Three men stood in the main foyer, two in the same shade of brown as her bodyguard and a striking man in designer jeans and an expensive sweater.

    463

    Tonight, she'd take comfort in the arms of the only man she ever loved.

    464

    Traci was alone with the man she recognized as Ving, who stood near the doorway.

    465

    Unable to be alone with the man in her head, she went to her library.

    466

    Unfortunately, in spite of her life saving efforts, the young man had already perished.

    467

    Unlike Logan, this man wouldn't hesitate or complain about holding her on the days when the pain was too much.

    468

    Ving—the man in the trench coat—looked at Sofia.

    469

    We used to go there to bail out the old man.

    470

    We'd better tell the old man he needs to get hopping.

    471

    Well, man up and do it in person.

    472

    What could this man possibly know that her father needed?

    473

    What remained in the darkened room was a beaten old man.

    474

    Whatever had happened, the man before her was hurting still, like she did when her father hit her.

    475

    Whatever the old man said, it elevated Cynthia's mood a few notches on the normalcy meter.

    476

    When the old man tried to engage him in further conversation—this time about Pumpkin Green and the general irresponsibility of today's youth—he excused himself on an important errand and left Westlake standing in the hall.

    477

    Where was he when your man spotted him?

    478

    Whether he was trying to escape or attack Alex was unclear, but Alex reached the door at the same time the man did.

    479

    While Dean had been at odds with the man since their first confrontation last January, it was Fitzgerald's venomous comments at the debate that led Dean to now believe him capable of almost anything.

    480

    While his form was large enough to be a man the size of Damian's Guardians, his voice was terrified and gravelly, as if he hadn't ever spoken to anyone.

    481

    While Howie hadn't viewed the show, he was incensed at the man's attitude as described by Martha.

    482

    Who could deny looking at those smooth bronzed features and delicious chocolate eyes that he was an unusually handsome man?

    483

    Why was it that anything dead was dead meat to a man?

    484

    Why was the man at the house?

    485

    With a frown, she wondered why she'd never seen it before, why she wasted seven years trying to make things work with someone who couldn't hold a candle to the man she was meant to be with.

    486

    With Fred's approval, he dashed up to the old man's room to fire up his computer and do so.

    487

    With his chiseled features and muscular frame, he was without a doubt the sexiest man she'd ever seen.

    488

    With one leg in my house and one leg out, my man Aldo Benitez shot him.

    489

    Without the scars, he was a darkly handsome man, his features heavy and masculine.

    490

    Xander didn't move like she expected a man his size to move.

    491

    You didn't find a man chained to the wall?

    492

    You probably never thought your father could kill a man before today.

    493

    You sound like my wife, but 'Any man's death diminishes me because I'm involved in mankind.'

    494

    You threw me out with nowhere to go after the man who was meant to be my husband was killed.

    495

    You're a good man, Darian.

    496

    You're a handsome man, Darian.

    497

    You're a truly remarkable man.

    498

    You're not a water sprite, and you're not afraid to be alone on a beach with a man you think murders people.

    499

    Yully cracked the door open, suspecting the man named Jule was there even before she flipped on the lights.

    500

    Yully kept her gaze on the man Jule battled until his back was to her.