They finished breakfast and June got ready for work. Dan wasn't in any hurry since he was off the next week. He had a lot of vacation time built up and had to "use it or lose it." He had planned to spend the week at a lodge in the mountains where he could fish and, generally, just be alone. He'd had the reservation for a month now. While June was showering,...
Getting old is a total bitch. You start to feel it in your joints when you get up in the morning; start to notice that you can't stay out as late as you used to. Can't dink like you used to without royally fucking up the next day well into the afternoon. Those cheeseburgers tend to stick around your midsection a little longer than they used to and your hair...
Erin Lee Baker leaned wearily against her front door, tilting her purse to catch the glow from the streetlight as she tried to find her keys. She had been kept after work for the fourth night in a row, three hours after the others had gone home, trying to sort out that damned list of witnesses and decide which ones would be most beneficial to her client. The...
Training Missy Chapter 4: New Lessons Enjoy xantu Missy woke to the familiar sensation of Mick touching her, a casual finger tracing the contours of her face. She opened her eyes and blinked as she focused on the sight of his black eyes looking over the edge of the bed at her as she slept on the floor beside him. Pushing her blankets aside, she pulled h...
Author's Note: All errors are strictly mine. * * * A week later, Aiko found her husband in a pensive mood. "You've got something on your mind, Gerald." "Yes, hon, I've been extremely busy at work since our cruise. Now I have to take a few business trips to the West Coast. Some of the regional offices have invited me to train their staff. My boss says I'm...
Part 1 Moments after they left the boutique, they bumped into Linda and her mother and both women were keen to take a look at what she had bought. She knew she could never allow her mother or her sister to see the kind of underwear that Sandy had bought for her so promised to show them once they all got home, simply trying to buy herself some time. If she t...
Sam rolled off me and sat up on the side of the bed. "I'm gonna take a shower. Want to join me?" He looked back at me lying there exhausted and sweaty. We had just finished another solid hour of lovemaking and it had been great. "Thanks but no thanks. I need to stay here and recover. You wore me out and I'm going to be sore later. I'm not complaining, mind...
I. He watched her sleep, her long, plump legs bent at the knees, a pillow between them to straighten her spine. Her breasts and belly sagged to her right side, the skin glowing in the morning sunlight. The hem of his dress shirt rode up her left thigh, exposing dimpled flesh, a thin covering of hair, and the scars and pockmarks of childhood illness and acci...
On the anniversary marking the thirty-first year of my emergence into this world, I felt the bare skin of another human being for the first time in memory. Amelia always said I'd come to bad ends. How I ended up in her clutch, considering I had no genetic relationship with the others, remains a mystery. The story, as she tells it, is that four months after...
Saying goodbye to family is never easy, Mariah has only Kitty to rely upon, but even Kitty has her own motives, and she is coming up with a plan to try and help the woman who saved her. Mariah did not want to do what had to be done, and it was only with Ian and Kitty by her side that she even managed to make it to the reading of the wills for Tad and Charle...