I’d had it since college and Jacob offered to buy me another, not-so-subtly hinting that I made more than enough money to afford the top of the line. Even though the squeal was usually tantamount to nails on a chalkboard, I couldn’t chuck it. It reminded me of a simpler time. A time when working ...
They had a Michelin star chef on staff and were always given amazing reviews in all the right newspapers and magazines. Even though I'd only been on the outside looking in, watching beautiful people around tables with dishes that cost as much as my grocery bill for the month, I knew that Le Goût ...
Blue eyes were on the screen of his iPad, bright beneath a mop of still damp hair. My eyes lowered to his chest, bare and glistening from the shower. I wanted to move closer, to smell the musk of the soap on his skin. But there was no way I could be that close to a near naked Jacob and keep my ha...
I'd been psyching myself up since I woke up that morning, going through all the reasons why I should stay enrolled in British Lit. 1.) Dropping the class would give him power over me, 2.) I’d scoured Blackboard for another English elective and, no dice and 3.) Taking his class was the in I needed...
I fleshed out client dockets, updated calendars and delivered all messages to their appropriate recipients, trying to keep it together. Jacob still hadn’t talked to me in two days. And then there was the whole Cade thing. Why would he buy the picture? What did he have to gain?I turned my attentio...
The top floor of the library was pretty much a ghost town with the exception of a library assistant pushing a creaky book cart down empty aisles. It probably didn’t hurt that Thomas was only a month into the semester and it was 10pm and two hours before the library shut its doors. I preferred to ...
"We have a lot of ground to cover tomorrow prior to the start of the festival." His tone was purely business. "I suggest you get as much rest today as possible." The city on the water was close enough that I could see and smell the blue. I'd always wanted to study abroad in Europe and now I was h...
I didn’t get any sleep the night before, especially when I thought about everything going on between me and Chance. He all but saying he loved me; that pretending I was just a student was torture. And then there was coffee and drama with Alicia; shame that I couldn't just write off Chance for wha...
I still wasn't prepared for the weight of it, like rocks were piled onto my chest with every second that passed and I didn't tell her the truth. Italy with my father was like a dream I never knew I wanted. Home was the nightmare that I was dying to escape. &nbs...
"No." I'd spoken too soon—my mother clearly wasn't as dependent as I thought. After pretending that she was finally looking out for my interests in her own twisted way, she'd made a beeline for the kitchen, glided down the stairwell to the wine cellar, and reappeared with a bottle of Malbec...
You’d be wrong. After physically separating myself from the handsy man who had zero respect for personal space, I used my mother as a shield. For once, she followed through. Mom squared her shoulders and locked her eyes on the bug-eyed man. He kept licking his lips like he was so close to having ...