Once again Doug is leaving Paris. For good this time. At least at home he had Renee, but shit there was Mandy, too. How could his nice peaceful life have turned into a soap opera? But first he had to straighten out the Renee-Mandy thing. Chapter 10 Forgetting Paris I stared out the window during the flight home. It was harder and harder to leave Paris. I...
You've seen those pictures in the glossy magazines of the young woman dressed in boots and tweeds who stops beside the stone wall of the country estate, her cheeks slightly flushed from the briskness of her walk, her arm reaching down to pet the handsome setters at her feet, her smile so full of wholesome radiance that you can't help but turn back later to t...
May agimat ang dugo ko (My talisman is in my blood). ~ Bamboo, Noypi CHAPTER 1—Recover Yourself First Swirls of dust welcomed her footfalls, the motes of years dancing in the emptiness of abandonment. Haunted houses are scary, but condemned structures outdo even the psychological danger posed by restless spirits. Tala Bienvenido repeated her grandmother's...
Douglas Wallace sat behind his desk smiling, waiting for James MacRae to enter and bring him news the attack was ready to begin. The guard opened the door and James walked in, relieving Douglas of his smile when he saw the look on his face. "Don't bring me news you have failed again, James." Douglas asked him, seeing the look of worry in his eyes. "We must...
'How come you never took me to the beach hut for sex?' Adam looked up from his newspaper, shocked and a little afraid he'd said out loud the thoughts that had been running through his head, and for a moment he couldn't quite meet his wife's eyes. 'You what?' His guilty cheeks colored up. He couldn't think of anything else to say, but Sara didn't appear t...
I took special notice on the return trip from Roth's chambers to my own. I was careful to note and remember the direction as I had already decided to return for the dawn meeting. It would be in Roth's chambers I was sure and I intended with the help of Nadar's ink markings and whatever lay within The Key to conceal myself and hear the truths I knew had been...
As the other soldiers saw me, they could barely hide their shock. One of them even commented: "Looks like Commander Caleb brought himself a spoil," but it was too low for Caleb to hear. I turned and gave him a dark look, making him back off immediately. We were in his room, which consisted of a full bed, a wardrobe, a table with a small kitchenette in the ba...
Anita Sneaking out of the Rowan Castle was always tricky. It wouldn't have been possible at all if I hadn't mastered that magically undetectable invisibility spell last quarter. Of course, the Master level wizards could still detect me, as well as a few of the higher level journeymen, but it wasn't them I was trying to hide from. It was my own level, the 12...
I have had the professor on my mind non-stop for the past three weeks. I think that I might be obsessed with him a little. I don't care. There is an aura about him that makes my knees weak and my crotch moist every time I just hear his name. I still had Sunday to myself and after my inexcusable performance yesterday with Arnold I needed to see him. I went i...
January 2 ~3:22 AM~ Three twenty two. Jeez, it was three twenty two in the damned morning. Blue blinked owlishly at the glowing light of the clock at her bedside, wondering what it was that had caused her to wake. The answer to her question came in the form of a low growl. Abe lay at one corner of her bed, head up, ears perked, and tense. The quietly rumb...