"They will allow it over my dead body!" The ferocity of Beau LaConte's angry declaration, accompanied by flailing of arms that set the carriage to wobbling, made me take fright. The LaContes had been our Mississippi delta neighbors for more than a century, but I should have known better than accept his offer for transport to the Hallow's Eve masked ball at...
She wanted a divorce. There was no other way for this to end. Isla had asked him for a divorce and he had no clue as to why. He had known this day would come; he just thought he had more time. He needed more time to change her mind. Although he knew that was not going to happen because of the deal, they had made eight months ago. They had married for reaso...
I should not look so longingly at her neck. Were she to turn and fix me with her lapis eyes, she would likely be astonished with the intensity of my gaze focused, not as expected, on her breasts (smallish, round, lovely) but on that slender column. Skin pale, contrasting sharply with the red of her hair, smooth and taut. I could, I fancied, see the beat of h...
"I am so very glad you never deny me, pet," he smiled, as spooling fingers of silver moonlight danced over his face. His smile turned into a slightly evil and demanding grimace as looked at her kneeling down in front of him and then pulled her close to him by the hair, pressing her face into his groin. He lent back and let out a soft groan, as she brough...
“You’ve brought the wrong size” His garlic breath loudly complained. “I brought the next size up sir, as you requested“ I retorted blandly. I was down by the guys feet, taking a shoe from near his smelly sock. I needed a gas mask for this, some men think that washing their feet was a monthly occurrence. I had already been back twice from the stockroom bec...
***Part three is where it starts to get good...at least, that is what I think!*** The drive was a short one, with You being silent the whole time. We reached a house and You pulled into the drive. My heart began to race...my thoughts wandering, wondering what I had gotten myself into, if I was being smart in going with You. It was if You were reading my min...
Cien sat astride his horse wearily. It had been a long while, and he was more than ready to be home. They had not found Alex, but there had been gossip that he was dead. Cien felt a pang of regret. He wished he had not been driven to throw his cousin out, but it had come to it, he reminded himself sharply. It wasn't his fault. Nay, Alex had indeed gone daft....
The night air stirred the wind outside her bedroom window, as she peered into the darkness, and thoughts of betrayal filled her every thought. Just days prior, she felt her heart leaping at future plans and talk of tomorrow's shared. The despair of deceit filled the room, as if all she ever believed in was ripped from her soul, a spirit too scorned to ever r...
Angel stared through the window pain. She had walked through the storm of discarded hours for months. She had survived from the scraps of scent left behind on his pillow. The gnawing hunger in her belly could not be sated with even a morsel of food. She was hungry, hungry for his touch. The buzz of her cell snapped her winter frost haze. The crackle on the...
For many months afterward, Princess Aeronwyn was saddened by the loss of her true love. She went to her rose garden everyday, and stayed there from mid day to late evening hoping her prince would appear to her. Prince Brenial watched her from afar wishing he could hold his princess again and love her like he did that day in her garden. Each day they pined...