The being posing as Derek put his arm around her, kissed her. Her tears began to dry as the being said something like, “I’ve just had a really bad day is all.” Derek, the real Derek, saw it all and even felt his girlfriend’s lips against his own. But he was trapped behind ...
TARGET PRACTICE “Fire.” I could practically feel my gunman’s groan. I set the drill-runner in the center of the bay before he finished annihilating the target. There were burns down the side of the wall. So much for target practice. “He’s too slow...
“You have to look at it like this, honey. You did well as a mother,” my husband Michael said. He always told me that, even when I felt like I abandoned our son by working when he was just a toddler. Michael let me quit my job, he worked overtime to pay the mortgage. He did everything right. ...
SPECIAL ORDER The thing everyone always forgets about Bill Pace is that he only pretends to be forgetful and busy. It took fifteen minutes for me to remind Pace why he owed me. But it only took him an hour to get Randall Nehalem out of Earthside. He didn’t even get up from his desk. &...
It would be great now. I’m tired of this. I’m so… I’m hungry. I’m tried. I’m bored. I wonder…she’s hot. Might age poorly, definitely in her prime. Bacon ranch. His mind is like being at the bottom of a canyon, and someone is throwing rocks. I can dodge most of them, but ...