Part One 'Diana's Story' I stare at the various devices laid out on the bed, shiny and enticing. Already, I can feel my heart beating a little faster, its normal steady pitter pat picking up tempo like a drummer in a rock band winding up in preparation for a solo. This was me winding up ready for my solo. The instructions had been precise on how the night...
CHAPTER 5 Mac whipped around in her seat to scan the road behind them. Eyes wide with fear, it was a few seconds before she could discern the vehicle. The dark, ghost-like shape hovered behind some distance, partially lost in wisps of mountain mist. Gradually, it emerged out of the greyness, the distance between the two cars closing by the second. "IT LOOK...
After that first night together, loving her and drifting off to sleep with her in my arms I never wanted to be far from her again. Weeks turned into months and we had many occasions to find one another in the bedroom, on the kitchen table, the sofa and a few other places. I knew I was in love and was pretty sure things were mutual, although we've never said...
Stormy was angry. She was on her way home from spending a terrible weekend with her boyfriend. Zack lived 300 miles away from Stormy. Their first weekend together since he started his new job 6 months ago was supposed to be wonderful, romantic, and sex filled. That was not the way it happened. He started the weekend with a nice romantic party of 30 friends....
Groggy and disoriented I am awakened by the sound of my alarm. Its midnight, I'm up. I take a few minutes on the side of my bed to collect my thoughts and find my glasses. When I fell asleep at 8:30, I had made plans with myself to shower, shave and reapply all of my makeup. Well, I sort of changed my mind when I stumbled out of bed in the middle of the nigh...
CHAPTER FIVE : STRANGE ENCOUNTERS Because George was spending time in London on family business, and would not be home that night, Sarah had been invited by Susanna to spend the evening at the Vicarage for dinner. Peter, as ever, was a jovial host, knowing exactly the right mix of Bombay Sapphire gin and dry vermouth, with ice and lemon, to make a perfect c...
There comes a time in every one's life when they are afforded an opportunity for real revenge. It may be something small - such as a chance to spoil something for that person who has always spoiled things for you - or perhaps something huge, something major - such as turning that person over to face the full brunt of the legal system with a long prison term...
I went straight from work to the bar. I needed a drink. I took the first stool available and ordered my first, of what I thought would be many, vodkas. I had almost finished it when I noticed her at the other end of the bar. I wasn’t sure whether it was the long dark hair or the soft olive skin, but there was something so beautiful about her I could not stop...
She’d been smiling all day long. She couldn’t help it. It had been two months and her on-again, off-again was back in town. She’d gotten the call late last night. The flight would arrive at 5:30. She had been looking at the clock all day long but the minutes had crawled. She’d been so distracted with anticipation that during lunch she had called her best fri...
It was nearing midnight as I pulled around the corner, parked and then put the top up to the car. As I walked away, I set the alarm and glanced around when it was set. Sometimes I've hated those alarm noises, seeming like intrusions in the night. But in this case, the neighborhood and all, it was a necessary precaution. There were a few couples leaning up a...