Alex let herself slowly wake, stretching her arms overhead and her back lifting from the mattress. She then curled herself into her smooth sheets under the warmth of the bedspread. Her dark hair trailed long and it tickled her back for a moment as she shifted. She let her mind wander to last night and her unknown companion. Remembering his eyes gazing into...
When you are filthy rich, you can do almost anything you want to do so long as it's not illegal and not too unhealthy. Suzi Puckett was filthy rich. And what she chose to do with her money she liked to think of as a blessing to shy young men and their future wives. It was also a blessing to a host of frustrated women. Jake always loved to watch her raise he...
"So this is Whorton-Dickster." Piper Cherry, formerly Liberty, arrived at Nashville's academic center quite a few minutes earlier than her scheduled interview with Principal Carl Manley. She wanted to see what she was getting into first hand, this being her first real job outside of being an Atlanta Falcon's cheerleader, as well as being married to their on...
AN: All dialogue, unless otherwise noted, is spoken in Japanese. For cultural objects that don't fully translate I've added a glossary at the end of the chapter. If New York was the city that never slept, then Terry thought Tokyo was the city that never dreamed. Its denizens pulsed through the neon veins of the city, on their way to work and back, or anot...
This is a follow-up to "Living in the Moment" published in the Romance section 9/3/2019. ***** Bryson Monday back to work days aren't easy when you've had a terrific weekend, even returning to a job you like. Somehow, I get through the day teaching my students the rudiments of algebra, all the while thinking of little else but Layla Moretti. I love her,...
Mark gaped. If Trent had been a wolf whose strength Mark had any passing respect for, he would have killed him in an instant. But this timid, bizarre omega had just opened his mouth and tried to claim Mark's mate as his own. –It was just too weird to react to properly. Mark practically stuttered in confusion. "Uh... No, she's not. She's mine." His wolf stood...
Bethany's Tales - Part 4 The bite of the cold steel hand cuffs into the flesh around her wrists jolted Bethany out of the near-stupor she had found herself. She was drunk, of that there was absolutely no doubt. She was also chilly, in fact, she was bloody well cold. She felt a shiver boil through her body when the door was opened into the parking lot at the...
Friday afternoon couldn't have come too soon for the students of Peterson High School. It was the first week of June and they had less than two weeks to go until graduation. For Michael Rossi and Bobby Williams, it meant that in ten short days they would finish their years at Peterson and move onto bigger and better things. In Bobby's case it was a football...
This is all set-up; no sex. Some of the characters are children, but they do not engage in any sexual activity. ***** "IN THE TIME of our grandfather's grandfather's grandfather," the High Priest began, "came the time of the Great Drought." He gazed down at the twelve young women hanging on his every word, and behind his white mask he smiled. "Famine hel...
© Copyright 2006, 2007 Chapter 14—The Fourth Estate It had been less than a week since James visited Miss Martin in the County Office Building. It was a good thing that he knew the way, because it was snowing hard again that morning and it was difficult to see the road signs. He was, nevertheless, determined to make the trip. Although out of a job, he need...