As far as the day went, it had been a fairly average first day. The work they’d given me were the menial tasks, which was fine. The rest of Jillian’s work along with Tammy’s, the other woman that I’d yet to meet, was shared between the three of them. All three of them were warm, friendly and quit...
Only Vincent was there, wearing his headphones. I called Lily. She was in my car when she answered. "Hey, I got the weirdest idea. Are you doing anything right now?" "I was going to go to the gym. I want to punch the crap out of something," she replied. I knew what she meant. "Can you check on so...
Étoile Winterstorm looked like she had all the time in the world. She looked amazing as usual in a short black dress, a blue wool coat open over the top with a white scarf tossed casually around her neck. However, I’d had a poor night’s sleep as I woke up every other hour wondering how I could he...
By the time I got there, she was ensconced in the living room, wedged, funnily enough, between Jord and my sister-in-law, Alice. "Sorry I'm late," I called, while waving hello, then ducked my head into the kitchen where my mother was pulling the roast chicken out of the ov...
I took some perverse pleasure in how annoying it must have been for my two attackers to have to keep bending down. With the speed of the walking, and the constant pressure on my back from the man named Pete, I didn’t see much as we passed through each room. Finally, we stepped into a room larger ...
A woman stood on the other side of the door. I peered at her. Boyish, short hair flicked up at the front but not quite long enough in back to curl over the Mandarin collar of her blue jacket, framed an elegant face. She didn’t look like one of my stocky pursuers, and neither of my neighbours had ...