Molly talked to herself as she shoved her leg into a clean pair of black stretch pants after a long shower. She’d already settled on a stretchy v-neck tank top that was easily washable if she got any blood, sweat, or other fluids on her while patching up the boxers at the underground fighting rin...
Throwing on my infinity scarf and winter jacket, I ducked out with the shoe bag before her call wrapped up. I didn’t need more lecturing this morning. I had to take my time going down the four flights of stairs from our one and a half bedroom walkup apartment. No sense letting my asthma act up ag...
She groaned. So much time had passed. She turned and saw Kevin staring at her, smiling. “What time is it?” she asked, stretching. “Nearly ten o’clock.” “Kevin, we’ve practically been in bed all day.” She started to pull herself up, but fell back down to the mattress. She was sore, yet found she s...
The pain in his knee was almost unbearable. After having trekked out for firewood, it was a wonder it didn’t buckle under him. And he topped that off by going out to find the group of strangers who now occupied his house, He let out a barely audible groan just thinking about them. He was already ...
He kissed her on the elevator, and felt her leg slide up and down his calf as she clung to him. They hurried off the elevator when it arrived on his floor, and by the time they were at his door, they were both panting hard with need. He fumbled with his room key card—more ...
The bright morning sunlight was streaming into his room, and Abby was curled up beside him. He turned and got out of bed to answer it in the back hallway, under the skylight. “Yes?” He hit the soft key on the right to turn on the speakerphone setting. &nb...
Time stood still between them. Nothing else existed while her heartbeat rushed between her ears. There was no more logic. No more arguing while his threat tinged the air, thick with tension. “Admit it, Sabrina. Meeting you was a trap,” Silas said gruffly through his teeth....
Was. Exasperated. That session with Evan was wrong on every imaginable level. He was incorrigible. I was not much better. Why did I stand there and let that happen? From the second I picked up my thing...
For eight days, he had avoided her, ignored her, and not responded to any of her messages from the night when he ran out. Nothing felt the same in her world. Sighing out her disappointment, she pulled herself out of bed and got ready for her day at the hospital. She arrived at work a few minutes ...
Shawn answered lightheartedly. “It’s late, bro. What’s going on?” “Everything’s fine. Look, I know it’s late, but you know how busy things get with me. I was just expecting to leave you a voicemail.” Cassidy walked around to ...
Whenever he was nervous he tended to talk freely with them. The two officers sat opposite him; one male and the other female. “Thank you for giving us the time to speak with you today, Mr. Crawford,” the woman said. “Call me Kevin...please,” he said, knowing his voice was already shaky. “Kevin......
She held on to Kevin’s hand as he drove through town. When she suggested going to a place they hadn’t been since they were kids, he was only too eager to oblige. It was a simple escape; something they had discovered when they were trying to stay clear of their parents. Best of all, back then, the...
I’d never had anyone new to tell, so Chris was my first foray into what I envisioned would happen at a therapy session. At least it did by my estimation, because I wasn’t ever going to find that out about counseling first hand. Therapy wasn’t something we did in my neck of the woods. What we did ...