1. The Starbucks storefront was mostly empty when he walked in at midafternoon. A few people at the tables, two bored baristas behind the counter cleaning up, anonymous light jazz on the sound system. He was looking forward to this first meeting, as he ordered a Grande latte and took it to one of the armchairs, with a view of the parking lot. Her online prof...
She appeared in my cabin as I was getting ready to go to bed. At first I thought it was Mara, the same figure, the same eyes and facial features, except she was a lot younger. Not a day over thirty, I thought. I must have stood there looking like an idiot, staring at her. What threw me was that Talla had insisted that Feng and I were the only humans who trav...
"Calm down Albel." Jen said holding his arm "I want to go see dad." Albel said jumping up and down Jen laughed it had been a year since Nick went to the front lines. Albel was 10 now and he was growing quickly. It has only been a year since the war started and it was taking a toll on both of them. Jen was not allowed to go fight with Nick because they thou...
Lady Arndale could have easily applied the cream herself but had asked me to do it instead. The bruising on her arse where I had smacked her with the hairbrush wasn’t too bad, but I knew she enjoyed the sensation of me rubbing the cream on her. I shouldn’t have been there at all of course, it was nearly seven in the morning, I started my work as a gardener...
"So are you ready to talk?" He growled at the blood saturated lump on the rough ground, he needed this information and it wouldn't do him any good if she died. Dead people didn't give information. She moaned as she looked up at him, desperation and fear mixed into one expression. He smirked and flexed his claws and considered where he would make his next i...
3. THE COURT OF FILTH Greg felt like he'd been wandering around in the dark for hours. It had probably only been a few minutes. The corridor had turned out to be a single long passageway in some kind of labyrinth. Greg vaguely remembered some kind of trick about solving mazes that he'd learned from his little brother, but he couldn't seem to remember it...
"Come on, Kira. It's an adventure! Don't you want a bit of fun?" Maya wheedled, glancing in that flirty way she had, up through her eyelashes. I couldn't resist that look, though in our week-long relationship, I'd already figured out that she used that look to get me to do what I'd be better off avoiding. Hesitantly, I followed her into the warehouse. From...
Body disposal and Onna's reward in the City of London 1905 * Sir Douglas listened to the sound of the horses hooves as they made their way back to his home. The steady movement of the carriage and the 'clip-clop' of the horses hooves had eased some of the tension that had gathered as they made their way through the fog shrouded streets of London. Sir Doug...
What seemed like a second later I felt the blankets being brusquely yanked away from me. I opened a sleepy eye and saw Alex, completely disheveled and mad as hell. "Get up you stupid bitch. NOW." I sat up, "Alex, I didn't tell…" "I don't care what you did or didn't do." She inched closer to my face and started to grab an arm, then stopped. "Oh no, we must...
I was born a princess, with a comfortable, meaningless life. My father doted on me, and my Nanny attended to my every want. I had a wardrobe full of embroidered silken dresses in every possible colour. I was nearly twenty, and at every ball I went to young men would beg for the opportunity of a dance. And they bored me. Reader, you may think I was shallow an...