"You owe me." He stood by my desk and looked down at me like I was some kind of scum. "Yeah. I owe you. Ask me to buy you dinner. Ask me to take you out on my boat some weekend. Don't ask me to take your sister out on a blind date." "I know it's a lot to ask. Look, I know you'd like to go to the big scuba show at the Queen Mary this weekend. I'll pay for y...
"Oh, honey, this is so exciting," said Cindy as she and John planned their deep-sea fishing expedition. "I hope we catch a big one," she said enthusiastically as they got ready for their day on the sea. Cindy and John were celebrating 20 years of marriage with a trip to the big island of Hawaii. "Well, I'm sure we'll have a great time, no matter what," said...
Off the village of Tiputa, Rangiroa Atoll, French Polynesia Saturday Morning The woman sat in the sailboat's cockpit, her legs stretched out in the sun, her eyes fixed on the thatched-roof cottages that rimmed the palm-lined shore less than a hundred yards away. The sun had been up for less than three hours but already the morning air was thick and warm, a...
"Lisa, where's my diveskin?" Mike asked as he packed his bag for their dive trip to the Cayman Islands. "I packed it in with my stuff," Lisa replied, as she struggled to close the suitcase, jam-packed with what she hoped would be enough for the week in Cayman Brac. God, she thought, I can't wait to get the hell out of here and out of all these clothes and...
It seemed like we no sooner fell asleep that the phone rang. I slowly woke up and Lisa jumped in the shower. I got up and started to make breakfast. I asked Barbara and Jane if they wanted anything and they just said "go away we're not getting this early." Lisa came out of the shower about the same time the toast popped. I was just about to go take my shower...
We were staying on A1A across the street from the beach, this the last summer that the Candy Store was open, so some of you may remember how long ago this was. We were there on vacation planning on doing some sunning, scuba diving, and partying at the beach clubs. We arrived late Sunday evening after driving in from North Carolina. We had packed light becaus...
It all started when my husband Jack got a great job with a very big company. We were married right after college and had struggled to get by the first few years. Then Jack got the very high paying job with a local company. The Owner and President was Mr. Anderson. He was a very rich and powerful man in the community and his industry. Mr. Anderson had us over...
A/N: For anybody that's read Loyalty in Death, this is where I'm probably going to be making the most changes around this saga as we begin to get into the meat and potatoes of this story. There's going to be a lot of text lifted from the original book but it's mostly just to display the role reversals between Eve Dallas and David Baxter, just read and you'll...
Even though this is labeled as Part 6, it is the seventh story in Wendy's series. For background, I suggest the reader click on Wendy's name and read the previous stories. I have written some of them, and Wendy has written some. It turns us both on to relive and write about her past escapades. In this series, she wrote the first several stories, which are a...
The list of people wanting to go hunting got longer. My boss had me do him a favor and take some clients out and show Numchucks off as well as guide their hunt. The morning came and the number of People grew to be larger than I had expected. They had brought another person which put four of us in the boat plus the dog. The boat was a four man limit which was...