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Wyatt had been adamant that she wear his ring, that she show she was his. God, the man was so possessive and with anyone else it would annoy the shit of her.
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Katie Reus (Breaking Her Rules (Red Stone Security, #6))
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Wyatt pushed out a rough breath. "You're going to make this no-sex thing impossible, aren't you?"
She grinned and snagged another bite for herself. "Not any more than you're going to make it for me.
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Katie Reus (Breaking Her Rules (Red Stone Security, #6))
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That Friday morning, I stopped by Tractor Supply and picked up a twenty-five-pound salt block for $6.99. I made Wyatt take it over to him later that night. It had been as satisfying as I imagined it would be.
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Rachel Higginson (The Opposite of You (Opposites Attract, #1))
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We cannot run from our true selves, Herr Wyatt. Deep down inside, the person within us knows what it wants to be. It struggles to free itself of the lies we tell it. For some people, they tell themselves that they need to go to college and get a job in an office somewhere, when really what they want to do is start a business or travel, or become a missionary. No matter how much we lie to that person inside us, they will always find a way to get out. That, or they will make us miserable for our entire life until we set them free.
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Ernest Dempsey (Game of Shadows (Sean Wyatt #6))
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Iris arched her back, pushing her breast farther into Wyatt's hungry mouth. Water from the giant marble-tiled hotel shower rushed down over them, the sound of it hitting the glass door seeming loud in the enclosure. He lightly pressed down with his teeth and tugged her nipple, sending a pulsing sweep of need through her. The man was too talented with his tongue.
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Katie Reus (Breaking Her Rules (Red Stone Security, #6))
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Wyatt Christiansen is the client."
Iris tensed at his words. Hearing Wyatt's name from her boss completely threw her off balance. If Wyatt wanted to hire Red Stone that meant he needed extra security. She hated the thought of him in danger.
Without giving her a chance to respond, Harrison barreled on. "I don't like the idea of you guarding him, especially since I found out you two are fucking married. It goes against protocol, but...my father owes him a favor and he's apparently collecting.
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Katie Reus (Breaking Her Rules (Red Stone Security, #6))
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Degan struck the wall with the back of his head, bounced off, and fell to his knees. Hadrian felt the pain in his knuckles and only then realized he had hit him.
Gaunt glared up, his eyes watering, his hands cupping his face. “Crazy fool! Are you mad?”
“What’s going on?” Arista called back down the line.
“This idiot just punched me in the face! My nose is bleeding!”
“Hadrian did?” the princess said, stunned.
“It was… an accident,” Hadrian replied, knowing it sounded feeble, but not knowing how else to describe his actions. He had not meant to hit Gaunt; it had just happened.
“You accidentally punched him?” Wyatt asked, suppressing a chuckle. “I’m not sure you have a full understanding of the whole bodyguard thing.”
“Hadrian!” Royce called.
“What?” he shouted back, irritated that even Royce was going to join in this embarrassing moment.
“Come up here. I need you to look at something.”
Degan was still on his knees in a pool of water. “Um—sorry ’bout that.”
“Get away from me!”
Hadrian moved up the line as Wyatt, Elden, and Myron pressed themselves against the walls to let him pass, each one looking at him curiously.
“What did he do?” Arista whispered as he reached her.
“Nothing, really.”
Her eyebrows rose. “You punched him for no reason?”
“Well, no, but—it’s complicated. I’m not even sure I understand it. It was sort of like a reflex, I guess.”
“A… reflex?” she said.
“I told him I was sorry.”
“Anytime today would be nice,” Royce said.
Arista stepped aside, looking at him suspiciously as he passed.
“What was all that about?” Alric asked as he approached.
“I, ah—I punched Gaunt in the face.”
“Good for you,” Alric told him.
“About time someone did,” Mauvin said. “I’m just sorry you beat me to it.
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Michael J. Sullivan (Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6))
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How many did you eat?” I asked. “Eight,” Slug answered, breathing heavily. “Eight quesadilla triangles?” I said, grossed out. Slug shook his head. “No… eight full quesadillas,” he said, again pronouncing it wrong. “Dude,” I said, my jaw dropping to the floor. “That’s, like, um… four times eight… thirty four slices!” Naomi quickly corrected me. “Thirty two slices.” “Thirty two slices!” I repeated. “This kid can pack ‘em away!” Wyatt said, bringing another plate of quesadillas to the group. “Gidgy…” Slug said, reaching for his twin sister, who was scooting away from his greasy fingers. “I might need a stomach transplant after this.” “Gross,” she said. “Don’t touch me. And stomach transplants aren’t a real thing.” “Giiiiidgy!” Slug groaned. “We’re twins! Your stomach is an exact match for mine! Only you can save me! I only need half of it. The other half’ll grow back!” “Dude,” Gidget said, raising an eyebrow. “You can’t have my stomach.” “But what if I need it?” Slug whined, sliding lower in his chair. “You’re just gonna—” And then Slug let out the grossest burp I’d ever heard in my life. It was loud, and it was bad. Like, my eyes started watering. Slug instantly sat up in his seat with a smile beaming across his face. “All better,” he said, reaching for another quesadilla on Wyatt’s plate. “Mmmm, gimme, gimme, gimme!
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Marcus Emerson (My Worst Frenemy (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #10))
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He was almost at his door when Vik’s earsplitting shriek resounded down the corridor. Tom was glad for the excuse to sprint back toward him. “Vik?”
He reached Vik’s doorway as Vik was backing out of it. “Tom,” he breathed, “it’s an abomination.”
Confused, Tom stepped past him into the bunk. Then he gawked, too.
Instead of a standard trainee bunk of two small beds with drawers underneath them and totally bare walls, Vik’s bunk was virtually covered with images of their friend Wyatt Enslow. There were posters all over the wall with Wyatt’s solemn, oval face on them. She wore her customary scowl, her dark eyes tracking their every move through the bunk. There was a giant marble statue of a sad-looking Vik with a boot on top of its head. The Vik statue clutched two very, very tiny hands together in a gesture of supplication, its eyes trained upward on the unseen stomper, an inscription at its base, WHY, OH WHY, DID I CROSS WYATT ENSLOW?
Tom began to laugh.
“She didn’t do it to the bunk,” Vik insisted. “She must’ve done something to our processors.”
That much was obvious. If Wyatt was good at anything, it was pulling off tricks with the neural processors, which could pretty much be manipulated to show them anything. This was some sort of illusion she was making them see, and Tom heartily approved.
He stepped closer to the walls to admire some of the photos pinned there, freeze-frames of some of Vik’s more embarrassing moments at the Spire: that time Vik got a computer virus that convinced him he was a sheep, and he’d crawled around on his hands and knees chewing on plants in the arboretum. Another was Vik gaping in dismay as Wyatt won the war games.
“My hands do not look like that.” Vik jabbed a finger at the statue and its abnormally tiny hands. Wyatt had relentlessly mocked Vik for having small, delicate hands ever since Tom had informed her it was the proper way to counter one of Vik’s nicknames for her, “Man Hands.” Vik had mostly abandoned that nickname for “Evil Wench,” and Tom suspected it was due to the delicate-hands gibe.
Just then, Vik’s new roommate bustled into the bunk.
He was a tall, slim guy with curly black hair and a pointy look to his face. Tom had seen him around, and he called up his profile from memory:
NAME: Giuseppe Nichols
RANK: USIF, Grade IV Middle, Alexander Division
ORIGIN: New York, NY
ACHIEVEMENTS: Runner-up, Van Cliburn International Piano Competition
IP: 2053:db7:lj71::291:ll3:6e8
SECURITY STATUS: Top Secret LANDLOCK-4
Giuseppe must’ve been able to see the bunk template, too, because he stuttered to a stop, staring up at the statue. “Did you really program a giant statue of yourself into your bunk template? That’s so narcissistic.”
Tom smothered his laughter. “Wow. He already has your number, man.”
Vik shot him a look of death as Tom backed out of the bunk.
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S.J. Kincaid
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Snake,” Wyatt announced. “A big black one.”
“There’s dozens of them,” Royce explained.
“Where?” Alric asked.
“Mostly behind you on the walls.”
“What?” the king said, aghast. “Why didn’t you say something?”
“Knowing would only make traveling slower.”
“Are they poisonous?” Mauvin asked.
They could all see the silhouetted shoulders of Royce’s shadow on the far wall shrug.
“I demand you inform me of such things in future!” Alric declared.
“Do you want to know about the giant millipedes, then too?”
“Are you joking?”
“Royce doesn’t make jokes,” Arista told him as she looked around, anxiously hugging herself. Immediately her robe brightened and she spotted two snakes on the walls, but they were a safe distance away.
“He must be joking,” Alric muttered quietly. “I don’t see any.”
“You aren’t looking up,” the thief said.
Arista did not want to. Some instinct, a tiny voice, warned her to fight the impulse, but in the end she just could not help herself. On the low ceiling, illuminated brightly by the robe, slithered a mass of wormlike bugs with an uncountable number of hairlike feet. Each was nearly five inches in length and close to the width of a man’s finger. There were so many that they swarmed over each other until it was hard to tell if the ceiling was rock at all. Arista felt a chill run down her back. She clenched her teeth, forced her eyes to the floor, and focused on walking forward as quickly as possible.
She promptly passed Alric and Mauvin, both moving quicker than normal. She reached Royce, who stood outside the corridor on a boulder at the entrance to a larger passage.
“I guess I was wrong. Looks like I should have told you earlier,” Royce said, watching them race forward.
“Are there…?” she asked, pointing upward without looking.
Royce glanced up and shook his head.
“Good,” she replied. “And please, if Alric wants to know these things, fine, but don’t tell me. I could have gone the rest of my life not knowing they were there.” She shivered.
Everyone scurried out of the corridor except Myron, who lingered, staring up at the ceiling and smiling in fascination. “There are millions.
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Michael J. Sullivan (Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6))
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So you’re a sailor,” the dwarf muttered.
Wyatt, who had been passing the time by playing with the feather in his hat, raised his head and nodded. “And you’re a dwarf.”
“What was your first clue?” The little fellow smirked. “What’d you do?”
Wyatt did not see any point in avoiding the question. Lies were told to protect one’s future, and Wyatt had no illusions of his. “I’m responsible for destroying Tur Del Fur.”
The dwarf sat up, interested. “Really? What part?”
“The whole city—well, technically all of Delgos, if you think about it. I mean, without the protection of Drumindor, the port is lost and the rest is helpless.”
“You destroyed an entire country?”
“Pretty much.” Wyatt nodded miserably, then sighed.
The dwarf continued to stare at him, now in fascination.
“How about you?” Wyatt asked. “What did you do?”
“I tried to steal a dagger.”
Now it was Wyatt’s turn to stare. “Really?”
“Sure, but you have to remember—I’m a dwarf. You’ll probably get a slap on the wrist. After all, you only destroyed a country. I’ll likely be ripped apart by wild dogs.
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Michael J. Sullivan (Heir of Novron (The Riyria Revelations, #5-6))
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Gidget glared at Wyatt. Then she held her hand out at him. “Whatever, dude. Talk to the hand.” “Hey, 1990 called,” Wyatt said. “They want their insult back.” “Oh yeah?” Gidget fumed. “Well, 2060 called. They said you died and nobody went to your funeral!
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Marcus Emerson (My Worst Frenemy (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #10))
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She laughed, the sound rushing through him like a summer wind, leaving him feeling warm and light and happy.
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Tara Wyatt (Burning Up (The Prescotts, #6))
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Wyatt’s jaw muscles twitch. “No,” he replied. “It means it’s nunya.
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Marcus Emerson (Spirit Week Shenanigans (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #8))
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As I paint this unappealing picture of Coach Wade Wyatt, it’s fair to question why I signed with Arkansas A&M and agreed to play for a coach like him in the first place. Two reasons. One, because my high school girlfriend, Sherry, was going to the same college. And two, because it was the only Division 1 school that offered me a scholarship. There wasn’t much else to consider.
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Darrin Donnelly (The Turnaround: How to Build Life-Changing Confidence (Sports for the Soul Book 6))
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moment Wyatt appeared behind the two of us, which was super crazy because our backs had just been against the wall.
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Marcus Emerson (Beware of the Supermoon (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #11))
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Get ‘em off’a me!” Wyatt screeched. “They’re punching me with their tiny fists!” “They’re punching all of us with their tiny fists!
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Marcus Emerson (My Worst Frenemy (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #10))
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Wyatt was short. He had wavy black hair and a pale complexion that would
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Marcus Emerson (Diary of a Sixth Grade Ninja (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #1))
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have any friends.” Wyatt was short.
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Marcus Emerson (Diary of a Sixth Grade Ninja (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #1))
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the teachers to do any more investigating so the secret ninja clan is safe and still secret. You’ll also be happy to hear that Wyatt was expelled from Buchanan. I don’t know exactly which school he’s at right now, and
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Marcus Emerson (Pirate Invasion (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #2))
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Maybe,” Wyatt sighed as he pulled a zip locked baggie from the small pocket of his book bag. Inside the baggie were sugar cookies, but bigger than the normal kind and bathed in white frosting. For the next few seconds, the only sound was of him opening the seal on his baggie and taking huge chomps out of the cookies. “I’ve never seen a cookie that huge,” I said, trying my best to sound disgusted. I hoped it wasn’t obvious that my mouth was watering for one. They’re like my kryptonite! With a full mouth, Wyatt muttered, “My mom makes them huge like this ‘cause she knows how I like ‘em. There’s enough cookie dough in one of these bad boys to feed a family of six for a week.” No way, I thought. I’m from a family of four and there was no way a single cookie would feed us for a week! Oh wait… he was being sarcastic. Crumbs fell from Wyatt’s mouth.
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Marcus Emerson (A Game of Chase (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #4))
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Wyatt can handle it,” he said. “It doesn’t take a saint to raise another man’s child, Maggie.
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Dawn Lee McKenna (Awash (The Forgotten Coast, #6))
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I saw Wyatt’s jaw muscles twitch. “No,” he replied. “It means it’s nunya.
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Marcus Emerson (Spirit Week Shenanigans (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #8))
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It’s okay,” Wyatt said. “We’re all afraid of something.” “Thanks, but it’s cool… you don’t have to hold my hand.” “I’m not.” “Uh… is that your hand, Chase?” “No, dude,” I said. “I’m way behind you.” There was silence for, like, ten seconds. “Oh, nevermind,” Slug said. “I was holding my own hand.” Wyatt took a deep breath. “Dork.
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Marcus Emerson (Beware of the Supermoon (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #11))
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that sounds – ninjas and cookies are two of the most awesome things on the planet. Of course they’d go great together! Wyatt sat by my side with a mouthful of cookie. He chewed it sloppily like a dog. “I’m thankful that you’ve chosen to become a member of my clan.” “Are there other clans?” I asked. “No,” Wyatt said. “Are you ready for the task we’ve specifically chosen for you?” I set my Oreos down on the little table. My first job as a ninja, and in a real ninja uniform – of course I was ready! “Yes, tell me what I must do.” Wyatt paused. “Are you sure? You wear the uniform now so you can’t reject any kind of duty you’re given.” For a second, I imagined he said “doodie,” and I laughed. “No, I won’t reject anything. Whatever you want from me, consider it done.” Wyatt nodded, and made a “tch tch” sound with his cheek. Immediately, one of the other members of the clan tossed a backpack to the ground in front of me. It was bright red with speckled straps. I studied it for a moment. I had seen a backpack like this before, but where? And then it hit me – I saw the same bag sitting by Zoe’s desk earlier in the week. This was Zoe’s backpack. “Why do you have that?” I asked. Wyatt shook his head. “Members of my clan don’t ask questions when they’re given a task, and yours is simple. All you have to do is take this bag to the front office.” “Sneak it in there? You want me to walk through the school wearing this ninja uniform?” “No,” Wyatt said. “That’s why it’ll be easy. After gym, you’ll change into your normal street clothes and simply take this bag to the front desk. You’ll deliver it to the principal, and tell them that you found it under a bush outside.” I looked at Zoe’s backpack. Could it have been a coincidence? Could this just be the same bag that she has? As I scanned the side of it, I saw
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Marcus Emerson (Diary of a Sixth Grade Ninja (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #1))
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were doing, but they weren’t at their table anymore. When I finally found them, they were huddled up with some other kids near the center of the cafeteria. Gavin had his brow furrowed as if he was concerned, but I’m pretty sure he always looked like that. It wasn’t until I saw Brayden with the same expression that I knew something was wrong. I stood from my table and joined the crowd of students. I was on the outside of the circle so I couldn’t tell what was going on yet. “What’s up?” I asked Brayden. Brayden shrugged his shoulders. “Somebody stole something, I think.” Gavin leaned over and stood on his tippy toes. “Not somebody, but a lot of bodies. A few kids had some things stolen from them.” “Okay,” I said, “so why isn’t anyone speaking up about it? Why the weird huddle of whispers and secrets?” “Because it was gum that was stolen,” Faith said, as she stepped out of the circle and joined our conversation. Zoe was right behind her. “Someone stole gum from ten different kids.” “Ah,” Brayden sighed. “So it’s not like they’d get help to begin with. If they admitted they had gum, they’d be asked why they even had it in the first place.” “Exactly,” Faith said, rubbing her arms like she was cold. “Ten kids?” I whispered. “Someone managed to get away with stealing gum from ten different people?” Faith nodded. “Some of these kids had it taken right from their pockets too!” “That’s crazy!” I said. “That’s…” I trailed off. I wanted to say it sounded like the work of a ninja, but I kept my mouth shut. “What’s crazy is that some of these kids said they still had their gum before answering the questions on that career test,” Faith added. “That was only, like, twenty minutes ago.” Zoe darted her eyes at Wyatt as he approached. “It was you, wasn’t it?” “What was me?” Wyatt asked, annoyed. As much as I didn’t want to, I knew I had to speak up because it was the honorable thing to do. “No,” I said, coming to Wyatt’s defense. “He was with me the entire time, before and after the career test. He never left my sight.” I pointed at Olive, who was still chomping away. “She was with him too, so it wasn’t her either. Even though it looks like she’s chewing enough gum for a football team, she was chewing on it before the career test.
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Marcus Emerson (Buchanan Bandits! (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #6))
Marcus Emerson (Extra Large Soda Jerk (Secret Agent 6th Grader, #3))
Marcus Emerson (Extra Large Soda Jerk (Secret Agent 6th Grader, #3))
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Yup,” Wyatt said. “Lay that million bucks on me, Dr. Tenderbutt. I’m ready to be so rich that I can literally buy happiness!
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Marcus Emerson (My Worst Frenemy (Diary of a 6th Grade Ninja, #10))
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He'd chosen Agadir, Morocco, a city somewhat off the beaten path by most standards. The choice of country was good enough. It was fairly close to his native land of France, just a short crossing through the Gibraltar Strait.
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Ernest Dempsey (Game of Shadows (Sean Wyatt #6))
Dr. Block (Diary of a Surfer Villager, Book 6 (Diary of a Surfer Villager #6))