Becky woke rolling over in bed, looking at the clock on her nightstand. It read 8:22 on a Saturday morning. She lay there gathering herself, recalling. She'd heard her father come in somewhere after one in the morning. It was the first time she could ever recall his coming home that late when he obviously wasn't working. The fact that he had, pissed her off...
-VI- The doctor collected her after her bath, stealing a kiss before he escorted her to the dining hall. Annie was easily found, and it was joyous to watch the other girl's face light up when Valentine waved to her. August loosed his woman to her meal and watched with glad heart to see how easily she made friends. As the pair chose their spot and waited to...
Ramsay peered up and down the windswept street and sighed. She was a little drunk, and even though she'd always heard that alcohol was supposed to keep you warm, she found the November night air nothing short of arctic. She thrust her hands so forcefully into her coat pockets she feared the seams would rip. "This is ridiculous," she muttered to herself as...
To my dismay I woke to the same symphonic crashing of waves, but there was no sunlight flooding the room. The city below my lavish prison suite was silent, night had fallen. As I sat up the sheet covering me fell away and I saw that I was still naked. I panicked when my thoughts took me back to my tussle with this Alessandro Rossi. When I passed out he had...
I was rattled awake by a sudden jolt. Pulling the small complimentary airline eye mask off my face, I was assaulted by the bright cabin lights and sun pouring through my window. Rubbing my eyes, I began to acclimate to the light, enough to realize that we had finally landed in London. It had been a long flight. As the plane began to empty, I was finally abl...
The Gold Lounge was about half-full. It was a Thursday night, the first night of the convention that brought her to Vegas. Her co-worker, who was also a good friend, had taken a taxi to the Barry Manilow show, and Joy had opted out. On account of her being Manilow-Intolerant, although she had simply feigned a deep desire to relax and explore their hotel. One...
I was in my favorite bar having my final-final for the night and big Sally was the bartender on duty. Sally's a huge African-American gal who has a great sense of humor. She came over to where I was sitting at the bar kind of sheepishly saying she had to ask me a question. "Go ahead honey, ask away." "Well Sam, we have known each other for a long time and...
Doctor Robert Ruark peeled off his surgical gloves. The operation had been a difficult one, but after seven hours of grueling work he had succeeded in repairing the damaged heart valve. His brow was deeply furrowed as the tall, lean black man allowed thoughts of Alice to enter his mind for the first time since entering the operating room. 'What the hell is...
CHAPTER 1 The young woman sat silently at her perch in the large tree. She looked from between the branches as the rest of the tribe went about their day. She wished, not for the first time, to be anywhere but here. She knew that shortly her mother would send her sister to find her, but until then she had a few precious moments to herself. At 21, Miranda...
It is an unspoken rule that every village needs a tramp. A village can have all the virtuous women in the world, but without at least one woman who will loosen her morals, it will surely implode. Such was the common wisdom in the island village of Kos. The position had been filled for years by Daphne Rigini, but Daphne eventually got married and became resp...