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You should believe me,” she announced, “because in order to destroy you, I need to acknowledge you first. See, in order to ruin a person’s life, you need to hate them. Be jealous of them. Feel some type of passionate response toward them. You stir nothing in me, Vaughn Spencer. Not even disgust. Not even pity, though I really should pity you. You’re the gum stuck to the bottom of my boots. You are a fleeting moment no one remembers—unremarkable, unnecessary, and utterly forgettable.
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L.J. Shen (Angry God (All Saints High, #3))
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The Spencers’ bedroom was soundproof, which was something Hunter and I gave Vaughn a lot of shit about. Didn’t make any difference that Baron was Vaughn’s dad—it still must’ve sucked to know someone was fucking your mom so hard she needed special walls not to wake up the neighbors.
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L.J. Shen (Broken Knight (All Saints High, #2))
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Vicious is Vaughn’s dad and the deadliest mofo in the neighborhood. I crushed on him when I was five. Baron “Vicious” Spencer is still a hottie, so #SorryNotSorry
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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Shhhh. Don't cry, Ronnie. Just tell me what we like, so I can remember. Because I lost my way, baby.
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J.A. Huss (Guns: The Spencer Book (Rook and Ronin Spinoff, #4))
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He pulls me into a hug. A rarity I know not to take for granted when it comes to Vaughn. I bury my face in his chest and let myself crumple, feeling my bones shaking inside my body.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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But if we were silver, Vaughn Spencer was gold. If we were good, he was brilliant. And when we shone? He gleamed with the force of a thousand suns, charring everything around him. It was like God had carved him differently, paid extra attention to detail while creating him.
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L.J. Shen (Angry God (All Saints High, #3))
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I feel a brush over my arm where Penn stood just a second ago. It's Knight. And next to Knight stands Vaughn.
'Cole?' Gus twists his lips, glowering. 'What the fuck?'
Knight clasps a hand on my shoulder, hitching a shoulder up while lighting a joint.
'The fuck is, you don't fuck with my family and integrity and assume you get out of it in one piece. Or, you know, at all.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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I'm turning my back on Vaughn and Knight without saying goodbye because I know they won't let me go. They'll promise to protect me and fight my battles at school, and a part of me still wants that to happen.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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Knight and Vaughn are the closest to each other, practically brothers, which is weird because they are also like fire and ice. Vaughn is a crazy artist with psychotic tendencies, and Knight is the definition of a popular jock.
One is Edward Scissorhands; the other is Zac Efron's prettier long-lost brother.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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The snake pit is crowded tonight.
It always is when Vaughn fights, and Vaughn always fights. He breaks noses almost as well as he breaks hearts.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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He looks at me, the circle, then me again. “It’s really you, right? I didn’t create some simulacrum that was inhabited by a demon? Prove it’s you. Say something only Spencer would say.”
“Like what?”
“Say something annoying.”
I think about it. “Well, you claim to be British, there’s really only one thing I can think of.”
“That being?”
I lean in close, my lips gently brushing his ear. “Soccer.”
He shoves me away. “Fuck. You. It’s foot… Yeah, it’s you.
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Vaughn R. Demont (Community Service (Broken Mirrors, #3))
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You will never forget this day, Veronica Vaughn. For the rest of your life, whenever someone asks you what the best day of your life was, this will be in your top three.
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J.A. Huss (Guns: The Spencer Book (Rook and Ronin Spinoff, #4))
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Mom and Dad clap. Bailey jumps up and down. Knight gives us a thumbs-up, and Vaughns rolls his eyes but smiles. Luna, Addy, Harper, and Camilo look at us likek they've won something. Happy in our happiness.
And that's what good friends and families do.
They pick you up and pull you out of the mud of your own mistakes.
And when you're not the best version of yourself? Well, they're still there, waiting, because we're all fucking human.
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L.J. Shen (Pretty Reckless (All Saints High, #1))
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A minute passes as we enter Little Tokyo. It's kind of similar to what you see in the movies, with a lot of signs in different languages with "engrish" translations underneath and those big red gates with the curved wood on top, whatever they're called. The passing people on the street are, understandably, largely of Asian descent.
... I get a couple looks, but I suspect it's 'cause my hair is a variety of shades not seen outside of an anime.
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Vaughn R. Demont (Coyote's Creed (Broken Mirrors, #1))
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A cemetery?" I chuckle, but the pitch is a bit higher than I expected. "At night? With a full moon? Um ... did you see any, uh, zombies, you, while you were there?"
Shiko blinks at me a few times. "No"
I slump in relief. "Thank God. I mean, I don't want to be the first to die. The funny guy always dies first, for shock value, you know. Rourke would get killed next, because it's be a heroic sacrifice or something." I motion to Shiko. "You'd live, though, unless you had sex."
... Shiko has the look of an addled kitten, complete with head tilt. Rourke sighs and leans toward her, embarrassed.
'You'll have to excuse him. According to his mother he has an irrational fear of something called the zombie apocalypse."
"It's not irrational!
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Vaughn R. Demont (Coyote's Creed (Broken Mirrors, #1))
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Dad always saw through me. Mom had a sixth sense about knowing what I needed when I needed it before I'd realized I needed it.
But Baron Spencer? He read me like a vintage Playboy in a sperm-donation clinic’s waiting room.
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L.J. Shen (Angry God (All Saints High, #3))