"You heard me, Violet," he said, raising a brow. "I wrote down the number last night when they wouldn't stop calling you. Then I got too shitfaced to do anything with it. And today we were all busy. Until I got back a little earlier than you and Repo. So I did some looking around. You know what I...
Okay. I didn't know if it was something Roman said to him or what, but the second he stepped back into my hospital room, whatever tension and distance I had sensed in him was gone. Evaporated. I almost started to question if it had ever been there at all, if it was just a ...
She knew that was the deal. But things were different this time. She needed to get as far as fast as possible. She didn't need a bug-out bag. She was set. Besides, K would have just received her note about having help. That she would keep him posted. That would hold him over for a week. Before he...
The building was low and brick with a simple sign displaying the name. Nothing to write home about. I parked Repo's obnoxious bright green old school muscle car. He had about six of various kinds of said cars that he was currently working on in the field behind the compoun...
I flipped down my visor and looked into my eyes as I smoothed my hair back into the ponytail where a few wisps had blew about in the breeze of the open windows. "You can do this," I told myself, pretending not to hear the hint of hysteria in my tone. It had been building a...
I felt an unfamiliar knot tighten in my stomach as I read through the articles about his service, how he saved countless lives, how he came home after duty only to be stabbed twelve times in his own bathroom. “What the fuck are you up to now, Lo?” I asked the inside of her...
Emily shrugged. “Men are weird,” she mused and Hannah silently agreed. -- It took her another hour to finally say her goodbyes. She got into her car feeling strangely sad and nostalgic. While she always missed her family and friends after a visit,...