Instead she felt only despair. But she was not so petty that she would parade her feelings for all to observe—rather, she kept them locked away. Her husband was gone again. Every day he had somewhere to go, and always with Altor and Jane. This time he had been gone for nights, and even though she...
Their horses were tethered outside against the trees. As the sky darkened, they were all looking at the princess as she tried desperately to thank them. Satine stammered. She wasn’t very good at this sort of thing. “What you ...
We were both jumping out of our skin with excitement and a giddy, overflow of love; we were drenched in it. But there wasn’t time, yet, to enjoy each other. ‘He’s going to kill me when I tell him he missed it,’ Finn muttered. ‘Ma too,’ I agreed. ‘We’ll do it again, when all of this is over.’ ‘Dea...
Maybe I hooked up with her. I don’t know and I don’t care. I ignore her and head straight into the office.Jean is on the phone when I enter, so I gaze out the windows while I wait. We’re on the eighty-eighth floor and the ground is so far away I can barely see it. Every person down there is crack...