I don’t know where Hunter’s stupid little secret passageway into my room is, but I shove both armchairs against the bookshelf just to be sure. “Okay, I have to tell you something,” I say shakily into the phone. “Oh my God, are you pregnant?” I frown, wrinkling my brow as I reach into the bath to...
Where’s my wife. I can’t stop saying it. It’s like there’s something possessive about the way it sounds that pulls at something primal and something caveman inside of me. I follow the music up the stairs, hearing it get louder and louder as I make m...
The empty, sort of blank feeling inside is weird, especially since I know I should be feeling something much more right now. When your friend calls to tell you that your boyfriend’s been cheating on you, there’s a certain way you’re supposed to feel and react. Except, I just don’t. And a lot of t...
We don’t explicitly talk about that night in the week following, but we don’t have to talk when we’ve got other uses for our mouths and our fingers. The whole next week is filled with flirty exchanges in passing around the house, sneaking stolen kisses in the pantry or sneaky butt-grabs when her ...
The problem is, the dress does look good, I’m just not sure it’s really me, you know? “Seriously, stop playing with it, you look hot.” Quinn is every inch the world-weary college girl home on break; twenty-one going on forty and totally jaded about, like, you know, everything. I make a face at h...
It's the only thought I have to describe the feeling I have upon waking. There are waves crashing quietly in the background, the tiniest sliver of wind teasing my hair across my face, and the strong, muscular chest of the man who absolutely rocked my world beneath my cheek as sleep slowly fades i...
They’ve cleaned me a little, but I’m still shaking as I look down at the red stains on my hands and under my nails; Bill’s blood. Bill, who’s dead. Bill who I killed. I know I wasn’t supposed to hear the whispered conversation of the other deputies from over at the intake desk at the station. Bu...