The whole time Royse was trying to catch an alley cat, I just knew he was going to kill me for mentioning a cat. He refused to let me out of the car to help, or I could have just pretended to give up. And then I saw Juaquin watching from the stairwell door. He recognized m...
If I thought I was scared after that night, I leaned what real fear was after the first phone call. They kept coming, on a regular basis, and he always called from a different number. I knew better than to answer a call from any number I didn't recognize, but somehow, not picking up made it even ...
Much to Ajax's displeasure, he'd reined the big horse back to allow Kate and Sunny to take the lead. The original intent had been pure. Since Kate knew the land, it followed she would also know the best route to where her man had found the dead horses. However, within seconds, his purpose devolve...
"It's getting bad out there. I had the boys go ahead and put hay out." He hung his hat and coat by the door and came over to give Kate a kiss. She turned into his arms and slid her hands up to the back of his neck, glad to have him back in the house. "I guess we'll have to find a way to stay occu...
The grill and fryers still sizzled but the staff had gone quiet and taken cover behind a bank of equipment. A plume of smoke rose from the abandoned grill to be sucked into the fire suppression hood above it. Rita signaled two of the workers to shut down the grill and fryers. &n...
How could Jakob say something like that just as part of sex? Did he think so little of her? Tears pricked at her eyelids and she moved to get up, but Jakob tightened his arms around her. Dammit, she needed to get away from him and regain her composure before she humiliated herself any further. Th...