I found this incredibly touching. I can’t quite decide if this was too short or just right. What we’re given is a very short read, but it was satisfying and we also get enough to know the main intention of the story. I supposed I just wanted to see more of the MCs. I liked the pain and loss we fe...
Ok, here's the thing where I am probably wrong. Personally, I don't find submission or humiliation appealing. But when you are into submission, you don't see it as humiliation. But because I am not (I don't even like to read about it) I don't get the attraction.The story in itself is just that a ...
He should have learned that lesson, having been imprisoned for so long and so cruelly by the Elders of Gathandria. The recent despair he has been mired in was harsh but brief, and now Gelahn’s plans are sharp and clear once more. He has swept through Tregannon’s mind, breaching what little defenc...
Didn’t need to ask who it was from, the bastard. Bloody Marty. He’d thought I wouldn’t be able to stop Jake from reading it, but I’d left early, laughing off my boyfriend’s surprise and catching the first tube up into town. Beating the weekday Christmas shoppers. Now...
Even though it doesn’t matter how I look, I’m wearing my best suit, bought with my father’s money when I first started out in this business, inherited cufflinks, and a pair of shoes I have polished until I could have used them as a shaving mirror. My hair is smoothed down with gel, but I’ve been ...
As if from a great distance, Craig wondered if the storm would ever subside. It was making his stomach churn and he thought he might have groaned. In his dream, he tried to hang on to the sides of the ship but his fingers kept slipping and he rolled across the deck. Opening his mouth to scream fo...
Kate could feel her cells, her blood, her marrow crystallising in a kind of understanding she was unable to name to herself. She was at home and with no-one to question her. Due to traffic, the journey from York had taken more than five hours. Not once stopping for food, she’d simply driven until...
I'd certainly found out how true that was in bed, to my immense satisfaction, and now I was in the middle of finding out how similar they were when it came to domestic arrangements, too. Only forty-eight hours after they'd made their proposition about living with them, I w...
It might have been my own fear. I didn't know. Odd how dark everything was, in spite of the torch I'd remembered to bring. It was shining at my feet, and the narrow band of light only increased the sense of darkness. I could hear the sound of my breath, though sometimes I fancied there was a fain...
For another moment or two, he saw nothing. Then a shadowy figure came round the castle corner and began to hurry across the courtyard in front of him, every now and then looking back as if in fear of pursuit. He debated whether to call out, bring their presence here out into the open as surely wh...
Whatever she puts on her skin ends up making her something other than herself and she doesn’t like it. It always astonishes her how skilful other women are with make-up. During her commuting years (and the less said about that particular horror the better …), she’d once watched a young woman on t...