*** -- CHAPTER 2: Architectural Connections -- *** *MONDAY* "Good morning, boss." I looked up from my computer. "Good morning, Melody," I answered easily. My eyes flitted to the clock. She was right on time for a Monday morning. "Coffee? Your usual?" "Thanks, that would be great." I relaxed into my chair as the pretty blonde nodded and headed out. May...
**** -- CHAPTER 4: After "I Love You" -- **** *-- APRIL 2007 --* "I told you. My old man thinks it 'builds character'." Teddy sighed. "You think I *want* to work in a stockroom?" "No, no..." Stella waved her chopsticks in lieu of shaking her head. "It's just... we're the same age, and I'd do *anything* to climb out of this dead-end job. I mean, right no...
Melody was having trouble focusing her eyes, the eyes that captivated anyone who looked into them, her body was in flux, a body that trapped anyone who even glimpsed it fully clothed let alone naked, or even near naked, which not many people had in her past. In all her 38 and a bit years she had never been like this, she couldn't remember a time, even at t...
Chapter One "It was a beautiful ceremony I think," Lovie says as she sits at the vanity of the honeymoon suite. The small open section lets out to a bigger area with a king size bed that Quentin is lying in. He watches her as she adjusts the seat. Fresh from the shower, she has a towel wrapped around her hair and one around her body. She releases the top on...
Act one: Blindsided It was early evening and I was working at my desk. The Adult Boutique I owned wasn't due to close for another couple of hours. I was restless and wishing like Hell I could stomp on time's gas pedal. And that's when someone knocked on the jamb of my open office door. I looked up, surprised to see Dana, the cousin of an employee who had...
Amethyst Sunset: The world took nearly seventy-two hours for a full rotation. I sat on the beach alone watching the sun slowly sink below the horizon. Because of the leisurely pace I was able to observe the sunset through my mask in various spectra. It was my latest way of distracting myself from the growing negativity between the two princesses. My playtim...
CHAPTER 6 "Get the hell away from her...now!" Grant kept his firearm aimed unfalteringly at the bastard who would dare to force himself upon her. Grant was trying to remain composed in the face of this utter wrong, but it was hard as hell to see behind the wall of red. Grant was wholly infuriated. They were on the floor, the bastard's hands locking aro...
Previously on "Come As You Are" -- Four lifelong friends reunite for their ten-year high school reunion -- professional chef Brenda Lattimore, celebrity video game streamer Sadie Green (nee Bedford), recently engaged ski instructor Michelle Min, and local business owner Collette Hansen. Over drinks and dinner the night before the reunion, the girls discover...
Around her the inferno raged and rose higher, engulfing the edge of her skirt, singing her long cardinal hair; she closed her eyes and fought back tears and focused her mind on his image. She remembered the day she first laid eyes on the demon that had caused her to forfeit her life, body, and soul. He had seemed a man like any other set apart only by his...
"Master Mark! Aaah! You are hurting me!" "Just a bit longer, Syr, you can endure it for me, I'm sure. Both of us are going to be happy when this is done." "But, I'm bleeding. I'm not acting this time. You are too rough." "I'm not too rough. You are going to be fine!" "Be more gentle. AAaah! Not like this!" "Stop whining! You promised to do this for me."...