"It was two weeks later, and I was drying off after showering, feeling refreshed and happy. Don had been in the study working on our bills and, I had heard vaguely, talking on the phone. Suddenly, I heard him command, 'Jean, come out here!' I had an immediate premonition that I was in trouble, and, as I came out, naked except for a towel, I knew I was right....
Jack now knew for certain that it had been a mistake to let himself be talked into playing that veterans’ rugby match the previous afternoon. Every muscle in his body ached and his shoulders and thighs were stiff and tight. Fitness hadn’t been a problem, he kept himself in shape, but his 38-year old body just wasn’t up to the physical impact of the game he...
After forty years I realized it was over. What had once been a burning bonfire of passion had slowly burned itself out. When it was low I tried to stoke it and when it was just a flicker of a flame I fed it. When it was just a glowing ember I fanned it .But one morning I woke next to her, rolled over, and placed my hand against her perfect sixty-eight years...
Several weeks had gone by since the rave at Carnelian beach and Victor Savage , a police officer with the Obsidian Police Department, was on patrol in the early morning hours, looking into the disappearance Fawnie Dimple. The beach had already been searched so he went to search around the young woman's home which she shared with her brother in Hematite. As...
Jeff showed up at my door at 6:30. He wasn't smiling. "Come in." He didn't say anything. He just followed me to my room. "Jeff, why did you come last night when I asked you not to?" I kept any trace of attitude from my voice. It was just a question and I wanted an answer. He took a deep breath. He took several more not quite so deep. I looked him in th...
Lori Callan stood and examined herself in the full-length mirror on the back of the bathroom door. Just 20 years old, Lori was proud of her body. The oval shape of her face was a perfect frame for her large, hazel eyes and full sensual lips. Her skin was smooth and seemed to blend in perfectly with the long golden strands of her hair. The shoulder length str...
Closing my hand over the door handle I twisted, trying to make as little sound as possible. Nudging open the door I squeezed through the smallest crack I was convinced I would fit. The room was enshrouded in gloom, and I glanced towards the bed expecting to see Samuel still strewn across it; as it was the middle of the day he should have still been sound asl...
Breakfast the next morning was an ordeal for Constance. She had managed to discreetly leave the room last night as Eva, Enrique, and Robert succumbed to their weariness. While they slept on the carpet, in the midst of their strewn clothes, Constance sought the solitude of her own bed. She had been awakened early by Rob, who was cross with her for leaving...
Tecor tightly hung to Esric as the horse ran across the desert. Tecor was not used to riding a horse. Her people used them to pull carts, and other tasks, but hardly rode them. However; it was important to Esric that she would come with him, to tell his father of their engagement. After riding for two days, her butt and legs were sore. All she wanted was a h...
"Everything is okay, baby," Heidi whispered to her son, "Time to go back to bed." She lifted him up into her arms and kissed his head. "Where's Ben?" Fitz asked, eyeing the strange man as his mother carried him into his room. "He went home. Try to go back to sleep sweetheart," Heidi laid him back down and pulled up the covers. "I'm not tired," the little...