First, she needed to convince herself just a little bit that she was alive and not merrily prancing along down the winding path to hell. She was pretty sure that was where werewolves who hadn’t accomplished anything in life besides learning to belch the alphabet backward went. &...
” Giselle Burke turned her supervisor Ms. Gibson’s words over in her mind as she pushed the room service cart out of the staff elevator and onto the Hotel Beaudelaire’s gold level. “We’re running a hotel, not a charity,” Ms. Gibson had said. &...
Even if it meant sleeping with Nina’s limbs flung over her body and waking frequently due to the child’s chattering in her sleep. When Maria’s phone buzzed under body, she rolled her eyes against the pillow and considered ignoring it. Don’t. Wanna. ...
Sharon wanted to meet her at a dance club near the university in Chapel Hill. It wasn’t Carla’s favorite sort of scene. She hated crowds. She hated being fondled and groped by strangers even more, but before she could form her refusal, a niggling feeling settled in to remind her she hadn’t done a...
“You okay?” she asked. The waitress dropped some menus in front of them and muttered some assurances that she’d return. “Yeah, I’m okay. I’ve got an old injury that acts up sometimes. So,” he gave the top of his menu percussive thumps, “order what y...
If any animals had taken up residence in the small cave since his last visit, he’d need to clear them out. For the most part, animals didn’t scare him. He was a Cougar shifter and could frighten away most things that had claws and fangs without too much effort. The problem was that Glen didn’t kn...
A bluish, purplish bruise had bloomed along his jaw and for a moment, Sarah regretted marring that handsome face. Then she remembered why she’d done it. If he couldn’t figure out why, he deserved the lick and more like it. “You said you had a lead,”  ...
Two weeks, and they kept coming back around to this. The first time Calvin had tried to introduce her to the device, she’d accidentally uninstalled his security camera software. The second time, she’d tried to use a web browser and had put in some benign search phrase, only to end up in an endles...
Rozhkov, please don’t take this personally, but you have to put yourself in my shoes. This is the second marriage of my daughter’s I’ve had no prior warning about.” Seth cut his gaze to Meg, who was now transferring the uncooked beef into the pot and watching him as she did it. She raised both ey...
Not that she could actually own Hank, but the principle seemed much the same. Own. Mate. Two different kinds of possession. She must have nodded off while they were talking. Rude, but she’d needed the rest. She hadn’t had a full night’s sleep in a month. And maybe all that purring was what kept h...
Anton snapped magnets onto two corners of the black and white ultrasound photo and straightened it on the refrigerator. “Don’t want you carrying a gun.” “You’re overreacting.” Christina grabbed her bagged lunch from the refrigerator, along with her thermos, and headed towa...
Roth CHAPTER THIRTEEN Gillian was alone in Nick’s bed when she woke. She had no way of knowing how long he’d been gone, but her phone’s clock told her it was around dinnertime at the palace. She found her discarded clothes on the glass coffee table ...
From the moment she’d pushed her feet into her shoes when leaving Ben, the sense of dread had built in her gut and had essentially exploded on impact the moment she stepped into the barn. During the drive over, she thought she’d come up with the perfect idea for the men’s soap. The turnaround wou...
They were somewhere in New Mexico. He’d told the truth about that much. That was all she knew. If she’d had one of those fancy new phones like his, she might have been able to open a map app and see their exact location. Probably doesn’t matter, anyway. &...
“All done?” Drea blinked several times, trying to get her pupils to readjust to the office’s light. “For now. I do need to get blood from you sooner than later. I can draw some now if you’re willing. I’d like to test to see if your hormone levels have changed since the las...
Her parents had left an incredibly demoralizing birthday message in her voicemail while she’d been out snooping. It was so passive-aggressive, she knew it would become an obsession until she confronted them—asked what they meant by “Happy birthday, since it matters so much to you.” She was going ...
Nope. Bad idea. Pressing her arms over her chest squashed her breasts together and made her already prominent cleavage protrude even more over the front of her V-neck tank. Short of wearing a turtleneck, she knew she’d never meet anyone’s standard for demureness, but she d...
Mostly, he called in a regular order and the store had it waiting when he went to town to pick up supplies. Very rarely did he deviate from that order except to add in an extra case of Tecate when he was in a certain kind of mood. Ellery, however, moved around the store like a bumblebee with no p...
About half the kids attending hadn’t done the reading.He draped his head over the chair back, stared at the ceiling, and groaned. “You’ve got to do the reading. You can’t just show up in class and expect what comes out of my mouth to be all you’ll need to learn to pass this course. I’m not the ki...
The senior Felipe Castillo drummed his fingertips along the side of his borrowed truck and sighed. Perhaps borrowed was the wrong word. He’d stolen it, but just for a little while, just as he’d done numerous times in the past. He was always careful, always returned the ite...
Let me sleep.” “It’s one a.m.,” Dean said, lifting the corner of the pillow. “Not daytime. Lo’s on the phone. Wants to talk to you.” “Lo?” “Uh-huh. Remember? She said to call before bed.” “I don’t reme...
He passed into the den and plopped onto the old comfortable corduroy sofa that had been new when he had Marilyn were high school sweethearts. They'd come close to breaking it in once or twice, but Marilyn had a thing about keeping her panties on back then. Rumors in town were that she still did. ...
Standing in the office’s back room, Simone gripped Ethan’s forearm and, using her free hand, wagged a scolding finger at Dasha. “Don’t do anything stupid, Dash.” “That wasn’t on my to-do list, Mone.” Dasha rolled her eyes. “How long is the tunnel going to be, anyway?” &nbs...
Steven squinted at the distant fence and the pair of bright white T-shirts moving closer. Kneeling beside him, Claude turned, too, and grunted. “Think so. Ask a Cougar, though. Their eyesight would be far better than mine.” “For fuck’s sake, what’s she doing out here?” “Did you tell her to stay h...
He grabbed her hips and pulled her back onto his cock so forcefully that his thighs slapped against hers. Oh, God. With her hands bound as they were, the only control she had was with her mouth and hips. She could pull away. She could tell him to st...