Rosemarie felt a jolt of apprehension mixed with anticipation when she returned from shopping downtown and her mother told her that they would be having an informal dinner at the Collier's that evening. William Collier had just had a large stone outdoor cooking pit built in his back yard and wanted to try it out. Therefore the Thorntons had been invited to a...
10:42 As his Hundai Magma breezed through the streets of Amsterdam, his mind was in turmoil. He guessed anyone who came home to find his wife being fucked by another man was likely to explode in violence. He knew he wasn't being fair. It wasn't his home anymore, she was no longer his wife and it hadn't really been a man that had been fucking her. It was a s...
Two Years Later James felt a mix of emotions as he glanced out the window to the sidewalk and saw her standing there, hand-in-hand with the man her own age, the man she had ultimately chosen. He couldn't blame her, it wasn't as if he had seen her after the night of his own garden party. He had intended to make amends with her, consult her father regarding e...
That night when I reached the gas station, I was relieved to see Jill at the counter. Oh thank god she was back. Now Troy could focus his attention on her and leave me alone. I greeted her with a little too much enthusiasm and it surprised her. "Good to see you too, Sav." Jill said, squirming uncomfortably in my tight embrace. I had never hugged her before....
Chapter Fourteen: Going to a Rock Concert and Something Very Special. Mikel and I had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. Helen and Alan both like him a lot, find he is a solid citizen and man. Helen sees how Mikel lights my life up, fills my heart with love and joy. She hopes for a better future together but warns me to be careful so as not to get too far...
Its two weeks since Jennifer and Major Johnson were at the ski resort. Jennifer contacted her instructors and got concessions on her exams. Since she had to report daily for duty at the Center, she could sit for the test with a member of her unit proctoring. She and a few other members finished their finals for the semester with the unit's Master Sargent gla...
There she was: Tiffany Cartwright. The brown-haired girl I had fallen for at first site. We had pretty much been in the same class since elementary school, so she knew who I was, but I doubt that she cared. Every day after school I would sit under a tree and pretend to study while I watched Tiffany and the other cheerleaders practice their drills, and cheer...
[[I pulled this section out of the first Oligarchs story and altered it around that decision. In this deleted scene, Edith does get to see her mother before she goes to Hawai'i and thus knows exactly why Drew looks sick. One does not need to have read the first story to understand this one however.]] Edith got to her mother's room and found a silver plated...
My adrenaline was racing as I fumbled the cover charge money I was handing to the bouncer. Once inside, I looked for Kristin and spotted her just as she rounded the corner from the front bar back into the seating area where the southern rock band was just getting started. This was the night I had waited for months to come around, where she and I played "pick...
Dan Carter held the single sheet of paper in his hands and began to cry. He hadn't shed tears in--how long? Seven years since his mother died? But the emotions overtook him with a force he could not have foreseen. At this moment Dan wasn't even sure he had ever been in love before now. He had thought so, but losing Lynn now made him think perhaps not. As the...