When Demyan spoke, his tone was low and dangerous, his hands curled into tight fists. Lichakov’s nauseating smile only widened. She was dressed very poshly – in a white fur hat, expensive leather pants and a fur coat that probably cost Osip a small fortune. She always like to travel in style. “Co...
It was the hundredth time in the past week that Helena had asked herself the question. Each time, the answer only seemed to elude her further, and she felt more alone than ever. It had taken her, she realized, a full twenty four hours to even regain her bearings. When she’d left the gorgeous, new...
He’d never heard his sister curse like that before, in English or Russian, but there wasn’t time for gawking and being impressed. A quick glance in the rearview mirror proved that they were still being pursued by the vehicle that had crashed into them, and unless something was seriously wrong, th...
She quickly lost her way as one corridor looked the same as the last. She saw a set of double doors at the end of the long hall and ran to them. The doors opened and she ducked in. She collapsed to the floor beside a large metal canister and doubled over in tears. She cried endless tears of shame...
Anita sighed, looking at him over the rim of her cup. “You have to think before you speak.” Dorian could always tell when she was disappointed in him. Her accent got thicker, and her dark eyes glinted with the words she’d probably have said if she didn’t work for him. For this part, he clutched h...
The few days had came and went but now it was time to go back to her world and life back in the city, but could Rhonda really do that now so easily? After her meeting in the park with David, she really had not expected to see or hear from him immediately but he called her that evening. They were...
"Where is it?" she muttered under her breath, lifting the box and looking under it and even going so far as to stick her hand under the couch to see if it had rolled away when she wasn't looking. "I swear to god, I am going to turn this whole place inside out if I can't fi...
Xavier came awake groggily. He’d been awake until almost dawn negotiating a supply deal with a Japanese manufacturer and had all but stumbled into bed. This had come after an entire day of work, and a meeting for which he’d had to miss dinner with his sister. The guilt had followed him into the b...
The office felt cold, impersonal, and the look on Justin’s face wasn’t any better. He was leaning against the front of his desk, arms folded and expression serene as he waited for her to cross the room to him. “Lock the door please.” His voice made ...
She knew the one stop to refuel would be a slight delay, but other than that, she was beyond thankful to finally be going home. “Is it nice in the United States?” asked, Nina, Michael's girlfriend. “It's nice in the United States, like it's nice anywhere,” Stacey answered....
Sebastian didn’t know which was more amusing – watching Gabrielle’s eyes grow wider and wider with every additional room that was revealed to her or watching the staff whisper about her as they passed. So far, the story he’d concocted about her being a wealthy daughter to an oil baron hadn’t been...
Though he had left them almost a year ago, they were as familiar as if he’d never been away. It seemed like the past few weeks had passed in a blur. His psychological evaluation had been approved, he’d returned to the Air Force base and been welcomed back to the cheers of men who had served under...
Even five months after she had walked out on the sorry son of a bitch, Alyssa was still angry as a hornet. She had given Daniel Hartsford everything. Her heart, her soul, and all of her patience. And then, what did he want of her? A complete and total commandeering of her independence. He wanted ...