Joachim Copyright © 2013 Chapter One Washington, D.C. Grant Hollings stood naked at the apartment window. Three a.m., no one can see me. He leaned his toned, tanned body against the window sash. The lights of the city didn’t distract him from the pain shooting through his heart. I’ll neve...
Kit kept refusing. Tunney didn’t call. She sought to wear her mother down using every argument the girl could think of to no avail. Her mother wouldn’t budge. The atmosphere between mother and daughter grew frosty. Kit dropped Zoe back at school, still insisting there would be no remarriage. The ...
He sat down at the piano and played Chopsticks seven times hoping it would annoy her enough so she’d open the window. “What?” she finally threw open the window. “We have to talk.” “Talk?” “Can you come over?” “Okay, okay. Stop the Chopsticks, all right?” “Are you coming now?” “I said okay didn’t ...
Her sabbatical was coming to an end in four months. She had no idea what to do. She had planned to return to teaching, figuring she’d want to get back into a familiar routine and surroundings, but now with Jakub in her life, she wasn’t sure. Her thoughts kept returning to children. Jakub’s grandc...
Did she have an agent? No. She had hoped Gunther could help her with that. She had wished Gunther would be happy for her. What a fool she had been. She’d lied to him, betrayed him, or so he thought. Now, he assumed she had never cared for him, but she was hopelessly in love with him. Watching him...