3 Disturbing Yet Understandable Stars * * * I love ballet and the dedication it takes to accomplish it. There is a beauty in all the control... with the parallel feeling of freedom when the dancer performs gravity defying jumps and spins.This story has two characters wracked with guilt and need. ...
yelled Vasiliy in Russian. “Who the fuck do they think they are?!” The SUVs had taken us directly to his house—Vasiliy had insisted. There was an antique suit of armor at the top of the stairs and I watched as Vasiliy kicked it apart, sending metal clattering down the stai...
Maybe you don’t feel the one that kills you. My head didn’t hurt and even the crushing of my windpipe had stopped. Is this heaven? For a second, I just sat there, dazed. Then I started to become aware of things. Mikhail was no longer gripping my neck and I could hear him s...
One arm was nearly useless—a bullet had clipped it and it hurt like hell. Plus one of the bastards had kicked me in the side of the skull and everything was still woozy. I got to my feet just in time to see the car carrying Emily speed around the corner. Shit! I ran for the SUV, then realized I d...
“Get on,” he said. “Or…we could take my car. Which, you know, has seats and doesn’t end with us under the wheels of a truck.” He gave me a look. “You came to find a biker at a biker club. You found him. You want to know where this thing is goin’? Ge...
The sort of girl who went to crazy parties and had a million friends, as if I was perfect before it all went wrong. But the truth is that, even back then, I probably hit the books a little too hard and played it a little too safe. So no, I wasn’t normal, back then. I was a...
This was as new and fresh as the cold air rushing around us, everything I’d imagined it could be but cleaned of all the problems that had been holding us back. His lips twisted and sought and I opened, sighing into his mouth as his tongue found mine. His hands swept up my body, all the way from m...
I rolled over and tried to cling onto sleep for just a little longer. I was just dozing off again when my phone rang. I groped for it and answered it without opening my eyes. “The script’s arrived,” said Jasmine. I sat up so ...
Sylvie was working her ass off, slamming the bag and really improving her footwork. In fact, I was starting to see that she had real potential—fate had thrown me a bone. This scared, sweet angel, who’d never hit anything her entire life, had the agility and speed to really go places. In some othe...
Under my dress, my corset held me tighter than any lover, forcing me to focus on every shallow breath. As I fanned myself against the heat, there was a commotion at the door. A man in strange, tight blue trousers and a shining black jacket burst in. ...
It took me a while to admit it to myself, but I got there in the end. He’d texted the first day. I still wasn’t sure about the winking smiley I’d sent with the text about taking a shower—had that been too much? Then a few days later, there’d been a cute text about him drinking Starbucks in the su...
excitedly about how the guy I’d met wanted to take me on his yacht. He was silent for a moment. Then he told me he had a surprise for me. “I’m here,” he said. “Where?” “Here. Let’s meet. Gorky Park.” What?! ...