Damon had waited as patiently as he could, but five years was long enough. He refused to sit on the sidelines any longer. He wanted her. Now that she was free from her marriage, he wasn't going to waste any more time pondering about what could be. As he stood outside her room, he took in a deep breath. No matter what happened that night, he wasn't leavin...
I got the text around 6.30. "I'm leaving the spa in about ten minutes. So should be with you by 7. S xxx". I'd met Sophie a few months ago. She had been at a networking event at the Institute of Directors in Pall Mall. By far the youngest woman there, I'd naturally spotted her. But I hadn't expected to be talking to her. However, we ended up with drinks in...
Millie stared at her reflection in the pool of water. In the days since they'd been forced to flee, the bruise on her face had gotten darker and now it contrasted against her alabaster skin sharply. The purple and angry red around the cut on her cheek faded away to greenish and yellow, but the swelling had gone down enough that she no longer felt as if she...
Clarification: The Met. = London's Metropolitan Police Force, incorrectly known around the world as Scotland Yard or New Scotland Yard, that's just their headquarters. " Lock-in" locking the doors of a public house outside normal opening hours, so that a private party can be held. Providing no money is exchanged for any of the alcohol that is consumed and...
I was on a business trip and had taken an extra night to take my Aunt out for dinner. Aunt Tot was a tiny gal, a fifty-year-old widow and twenty years older than I. She was a fiercely independent person, indicative of many people of her size, and as the expression goes 'did not suffer fools lightly'. One would be careful with words and actions while in her p...
"The FHA inspector's here for your meetin', Hal," said the secretary over my cell phone. I was away from the office, checking on foundation work done that week in a 100 home government-funded housing development my company was building in Tennessee for victims displaced by Gulf Coast hurricanes. This was the third Friday meeting I'd had with the inspector...
Brody and Millie watched as the couple next to them began to groan and lay down on top of one another. Son-of-a-bitch, he wasn't lying about screwing her! Was his last thought before Millie pressed her lips against his. Things happened fairly quickly after that. Both girls were amazed at the way the peeping Toms could kiss. Cindy realized she wanted more...
Arrival The flight was fine, Elle and I were able to upgrade to first class and so we had leg room, lunch, cocktails and no screaming children. The reason for the trip to Las Vegas twofold: Elle had a business convention for her work, and we both decided that a second honeymoon was in order. It had been ten years of a great marriage and it seemed like a g...
The girls lived in a gigantic toadstool. Their bedrooms were in the cap, along with the bathroom and kitchen. Most of the rest of the living area was outside, where the overhang sheltered it from the sun and rain. There was a wicker living-room set, a dining table, even a stereo and TV built into the stalk. Hearts don't much care for privacy, it seems. The...
Some time ago I submitted a story with the title DEMONS TO SLAY. Many of the comments posted criticized the fact that the story had an unsatisfactory ending. This story is a version of the original that has a much happier ending. This is a fictional story. Any resemblance to persons living or dead and institutions is coincidence. DEMONS SLAIN CHAPTER ONE...