Dawn had come, and the light was pale grey and brightening quickly. He looked around his room. She’d teased him last night, seeing it, and called him an ascetic. And then she’d been surprised when he’d known what that was. She was right—he didn’t have a lot of shit. In t...
So bright. And loud. The bright dimmed suddenly. “Isaac? Isaac? Oh, God! Isaac! Hey, love. I love you. I love you. I love you.” He didn’t understand. ~oOo~ “Can you talk to me, love? Can you hear m...
Carlo Sr. snatched the heart-shaped pillow out of Sabina’s hands and held it to his chest as Carmen helped him to his feet. “I’m not a cripple!” When he tried to jerk his arm from Carmen’s grasp, she held tight. It wasn’t so hard to do—moving his arms moved his chest, an...
What a fucking asshole. Telling her to stay put. Fuck him. And everybody out there knew it, too. They knew she was sitting in here like a docile old lady, doing what she was told. She stormed to the door.She turned the knob, but then she stopped. He would do it—she absolutely believed he’d set th...
As she got to the wall of the pool, she rolled, twisted, and pushed off, headed back the way she’d come. She loved the sensual perfection of swimming laps—the slide of the water over her skin, the heat coursing through of all of her muscles as they worked in perfect sync, the centering rhythm of ...
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Home, such as it was. She been back stateside for three months, out of the service for three weeks. No job, no home, no family. Her father had had a generous life insurance policy and had left her everything, and it had all been earning interest while she was in the service, so she wouldn’t need ...