Re-reading Favorite Bits & and a Snippet

Are you like me? Even though my TBR (To Be Read) pile is sky high I still like to go back and re-read old favorites. Sometimes I don’t even read the whole book. I just go to my favorite scenes and re-read just those few pages. Since a lot of my old favorites are in paperback, this is easy. The book falls open to my favorite spots automatically. I love my kindle, but sometimes I like the comfort of holding a book in my hand while I revisit old friends. I don’t want to give you spoilers, but some of my favorite scenes that I re-read are from books by Sally Watson and Laura London, Ilona Andrews and Grace Draven, Wen Spencer and Steve Miller and Sharon Lee.

Occasionally I will come across a favorite scene in my of my own books. I thought I would share this one with you. It is from Victoria’s Cat, near the end when Vic has to introduce her new husband to her father.

One week later, the train, which had been retrieved from where the Kansas-Missouri troops had abandoned it, pulled into the Kearney station. Victoria stared out the window.

“I think every single person in Kearney is here. And more than half the Clan,” she added. Torn between joy at seeing her family, and terror at seeing her family, she swallowed. “Oh, no. There’s dad.”

Marty leaned over to look out the window. “Is he really angry, or does he always look like that?”

“Well, he just looks like that.” It wasn’t quite a lie. He did just look like that when he was ready to tear someone’s head off. “Oh, look, there’s mom.”

There were twelve of her cousins on the car with them, all of them waving madly at friends and family on the platform. Victoria waited for them to disembark first. They didn’t. She made shooing gestures at them. “Go ahead,” she ordered them. “Get off the train and be sure it’s safe like you always do.”

Eagle flashed her a wolfish smile, all bright teeth. “Oh, with dad and the rest of the Clan out there, it’s safe. We’ll wait until you’re done getting yelled a— er, hugged by mom and dad. We’ll just stay here where it’s safe and watch.”

Marty stood up, favoring his hip only slightly. “We’d better go face the music, Vic.”

He stepped off the train first and turned to steady her. Silence fell as a path opened between them and her parents. She saw other members of the Clan standing a short distance away, silently watching their Alpha. Her father, Wolf’s Shadow, Alpha of the Lakota Wolf Clan, jabbed a finger at Marty.

“You,” he bellowed. “You are the man who married my daughter, even though I ordered you to stay away from her.”

“Yes,” Marty began, but her father cut him off with an outthrust arm.

“She was stolen from you.”

“Yes,” Marty tried again. Her father glowered and raised his already considerable volume.

Well, I am cutting it off there. I don’t want to spoil it completely. I hope everyone has a fantastic week with lots of good reading material to keep you sane. 🙂