Law's Heart Novels & Stories

But. I was still hoping I guess, that we would be able to work it out. I couldn't hate him, even when I had every reason to. After all, he was the only man I had ever loved. And he was the only man I was going to love. Because the heart is a bitch, you can't make it understand by reasoning with it. It forgets all the hurt someone caused you, all the pain, all the misery. It only remembers those moments when someone made you breathless. Over and over, it just runs toward one person. And unfortunately for me, that one person was Landon.

Everything around me slowed down as if time was coming to a halt. When their lips finally touched, out of all the emotions only one was familiar. Betrayal.

"Well, I was going to call you and Finn but I knew that you were up on the ranch today so I called my gal Stacey. Here is the letter, you can read it too." Russ put the letter down and said, "Call your lawyer and not one tied to your father or family. You need independant legal advice." "What do we need legal advice for now?" Finn asked as he walked in wearing clean clothes. "This letter that Lili received. Read it. Her father left crazy instructions in the will and it is going to cause issues with her brother, Arne. You need a lawyer and a good one." Finn took the letter and scanned it and then grummbled, "We don't even need the money nor the house. It will just be more headaches. Ca

The perfect "no." The Law was born from the Null-Heart. It was its opposite, its violation. But perhaps... perhaps they were still connected. With the last shred of my will, I didn't push against the Law. I didn't try to reinforce my "self." I did the opposite. I reached for the memory of the Null-Heart. I embraced the concept of "no." I focused on the one thing that was truly, utterly immutable. The one truth that even this Living Law could not edit, because it was the source of its own existence.

It was heavy, weighted with the kind of importance that made her fingers feel clumsy. "I need to ask you something," she said. "As a lawyer. Off the record." Simone nodded. "Can he hurt me? Legally, I mean. If I sign this, can he use it against me somehow?" Simone was quiet for a moment. Then she reached across the table and covered Mira's hand with her own. Her touch was warm, unexpected. "Legally? No. The contract is airtight in your favor. But personally?" She paused. "I don't know Kieran Locke well. I've negotiated with him twice before, and both times I came away thinking he was the coldest man I'd ever met. Not cruel—cold. There's a difference. Cruelty requires feeling something. Kiera

A life is at stake here! His words left me dumbfounded and hurting, like I had my heart gouged out too. I held Stan's photo tightly against myself, but no matter how hard I gripped it, it wasn't filling the hole in my chest. "A life is at stake?" I laughed wryly, before snapping coldly, "When he just went missing for hours?! My dear Stan had an accident and then got his heart taken away! So I guess some lives are more at stake than the others?!"

“Not him. The law.” I stab the page. Right through Clause 3, Section 9. Pin it to the stone like an insect. “I, Luna Hazel of Stone Jaw,” I say. Loud. So the wind carries it. So the Moon hears it. “Daughter of Beta Cleric and Lina. Mate to Alpha Alaric. By blood, by bond, by every child you sold… I strike this law.” I rip the page out. And throw it in the fire circle. It catches. Curls. Turns to black smoke, thick and choking. The smell is old paper and lies.

Marcus looked down at his notes, his face turning serious, his eyes shining with that clean, uncorrupted loyalty that had kept us alive in Room 4. "When I joined Jones & Associates, I was taught that the law was a tool for preservation. We preserved wealth, we preserved liability, and we built walls to keep the outside world from touching our clients. But over the last year, watching Richard and Oma... I realized we had the architecture entirely wrong. The law isn't a wall. It’s a floor. It’s a foundation designed to hold people up when the rest of the world is pulling them down." Marcus raised his glass, looking directly at Richard, his voice thickening slightly.

“You know the law because you have heard it since you were old enough to understand what the old words mean, and no Omega may intervene because if you step forward then it is more than tradition that you break and it is more than law that you defy because it is the bond that holds the pack together and it is the trust that the wolves who follow us have placed in us.” “I know the law,” I replied and my heart was hammering against my ribs because I knew what I was about to do and I knew what it would cost and I knew that I could not let him fight this war alone. “But some laws are made for the weak and some laws are made for wolves who have never had to watch the wolves they love fall and some

She was unending, she flipped every page like a jack, never tired. "Every law of this character is dangerous because of the fact that law and right soon grow to be synonymous in the minds of men. Hon. Sheldon Amos, former Professor of Jurisprudence in Oxford University, speaking in regard to certain evil legislation in England, said: "Whatever law recognizes and provides for is regarded as morally right, comes to be so regarded by the hereditary instincts of the human mind."