Setting it on the countertop, I grabbed a teabag from the box before throwing it into the boiling water. For now, I decided on orange spice—a sweet but sometimes aggressive flavor. Just the way I like them. I wasn’t thinking of the tea of course, but the gentleman that had yet to join me. The sou...
After my lovely afternoon with Emma, the last thing I wanted to do was shift and run after Zarrius. The fire came to life as I shifted the logs around, then closed the screen before sitting back in my chair. Emma had gotten lost in one of her notebooks earlier in the evening and was now tracing a...
Her mind lingered on Aaron’s words from the night before, about how he’d read her books and used them to introduce her to new sexual highs. Now, she glanced down at the novel he’d left for her on the nightstand before departing for the day—well over three hundred pages wra...
I ignored the papers for the time being as, quite honestly, I was more interested in the box and what was inside. The box was a lot bigger than I'd imagined, and I had to open it on the front stoop just to get some of the more valuable items through the door. The box held everything I needed and ...
She jumbled her words when she spoke, none of which made any sense. She was like that for almost two days, and during that time, neither Luna nor I slept. Bleary-eyed, I smiled when Luna entered the room wearing one of Emma’s nightgowns. She settled on the foot of the bed, her voice silent even t...
Much like our fully furnished room, the basement was covered in hardwood floors with lights hanging from the ceiling. My stomach turned, the stench of stale blood entering my system well before we’d got down the stairs. Kassy wrinkled her nose and looked at me, her eyes full of questions I wasn’t...
Of course I trusted her, but whenever she got that whimsical look in her eye, I knew she was up to no good. The woman had a radar for things I loved and could usually pick up on them before I did. Still, waking up before the crack of dawn and being asked to pack a few essentials, I had to wonder ...
Dylan had worked longer hours than usual, or so Marnie had said—possibly to finish whatever paperwork was left from his trip. And even though it would’ve been nice to have him as my Master once he’d got home, he’d been lucky to get his shoes off before he’d crawled into bed. And tonight was no di...
By the time we'd reached the middle of the staircase, we were already shedding our clothes. His shirt was lost somewhere at the bottom of the stairs, and as he lifted my t-shirt over my head, he added it to the pile. We joined each other again in a feverish kiss. I trailed my fingertips up his si...
I lay there for a long moment, watching him take those even breaths, as if nothing outside my quarters mattered. And while I knew this wasn’t true, I let him ‘sleep’ to forget the virus and the overwhelming task of destroying it for another day. It has to be done. If what I’d seen earlier was any...
Not like it mattered. Neither one of us was hungry—certainly not enough to order greasy food and melted shakes. But because I’d thrown on my work slacks and a sweater, I saw no reason to head back inside. Simon and David were probably in to their third or fourth round of sex by now. And knowing h...