"Vaughan!" Jemima pounced as I closed our front door behind me, before I'd even dropped my briefcase and gym-bag. She flung her arms around my neck and wrapped her legs around my hips, ensconcing me in black cotton, bleached hair and the overpowering aroma of her special occasion, vetiver bath oil. Her tongue ram-raided my mouth and her heart knocked against...
"And this...is the restricted section of the library," the old lady said, pointing at a gate, "you must never enter it, nor allow anyone else to go in there. It has been locked for more than a century, and it should be kept that way. Do you understand?" Leah stared nervously at the gate; it had thick iron bars, each covered with intricate designs and heavy...
Ringgggggg... Ringgggggg... "Sean, can you get that?" "Hello? Hey Gina... what's wrong? Ok, hold on, I'll get her..." "Katie, your sister is on the phone. She seems really upset and said she needs to talk with you." When I heard my wife Katie pick up the phone in our bedroom, I pretended to hang up, but instead, I put my phone on mute so that I could eav...
On a warm summer day in mid August, Mazie Duprie gathered up her laptop computer, a glass of red wine, and curled up on her front porch chaise lounge. The heat of the warm Atlanta day had dissipated, and she closed her eyes to relax, feeling nothing but the gentle breeze created by the ceiling fans whirling slowly above her head. She absent mindedly swirled...
"I'm not gay," were the first words I heard over breakfast the next morning, "I don't know what happened." I smiled and assured them that I never thought he was gay. I thought he was sexy, and what happened the previous night was huge turn on. "I'm not sure I can see you with another man again," he continued, "I couldn't just watch. I couldn't watch you wi...
He had no idea who the young woman was when she walked into his office, but one thing Sean Johnson did know right away was that it was hard to take his eyes off of her. She was a natural beauty with an enchanting smile, seductive, deep blue eyes and dirty blonde hair that fell in heaps of softly curled layers to just below her shoulders. As he watched her s...
Pick Up or Delivery Mr. Tease. It wasn't the kind of nickname that would inspire sighs from literary review, but Sean needed a nickname for years. He'd called me angel so long that even I couldn't remember where it came from. All I knew was that I loved it. As a child, people had discouraged or forbidden their children to associate with me. That meant my li...
Monday was a busy day for her. She had a trade show that was running from Tuesday to Thursday, a motivational seminar to set up for Wednesday and two weddings coming up on the weekend. For the first time since she had started her affair with Dan when he called her and asked her to meet him in room 617 she was reluctant to go. She just had too much on her des...
I was 15 when I first fell in love. I remember the first night that I met him. He was a friend of my father's who had been down on his luck. He had just been recently divorced. So, lonely and depressed, my father invited him over to our house one night for dinner. He came into our house with dark, sad eyes, and I remember just wanting to hold him till he fel...
Chapter 1 JIM I'm James Thornton. Jim, to my friends. I'm sitting here across from the love of my life, Angela Thornton. No, not at our breakfast table that we've shared for the past fifteen years but at her attorney's conference table. We are looking at each other not in anger or hatred but with extreme sadness. My wife is divorcing me. What brought us to...