Bad word to use, erected. I found myself looking at the man driving the cart and wondering how he’d perform. Even Dr Philips was beginning to look attractive. I took the box off the back of the cart and held it on my lap, one of its legs thrust hard between mine. The cold metal brought some relie...
It was a repeated dream that started in his childhood and grew longer with the passing years. It was as though his conscience was determined to remind him of his sins. In recent times he woke screaming in pain. But then, he always woke up screaming in pain these days. The dream began with events ...
I should have entered Hop Space, but it twisted away from me as I approached and then the multiverse whirled around me and I tried to avoid spewing up as my mind tried to make sense of what was happening to me. Then I was back on solid ground and I vomited uncontrollably. Eventually I came to my ...
It appeared to be using a sledgehammer and he woke in agony as it thumped against his skull. He tried to move, but his hands were bound above his head. When he tried to open his eyes the pain was so great that tears blurred his vision. He sat on the floor of a long tunnel and a narrow strip of su...
The hotel lobby had been in turmoil as the whole of Lord McBride’s staff were coming with them and it appeared he had many of his staff at the hotel. They returned to the same compartment they had been in before. Bruce accompanied them. At first, he refused to tell them anything about their journ...
It irritated Dor no end that his father Gilan trusted Jant more than his own son. All the messages were addressed to Jant and only Jant could decipher them. Mal picked at his fingernails with the point of his knife and ignored the others. Jant would not let Dor look over his shoulder for fear he ...
“I thought you was Trelawney’s butler now?” Arnold glowered. Of all the things Tricky might have said, that was pretty much the worst. It took him a great deal of effort not to turn around and walk away, but if he did he would never prove Trelawney and all the others wrong. “I have come to help y...
Attala was feeling safe for the first time in months and for reasons she could not fully define, a little disappointed. For all the time she had been tense with worry, Attala had been certain that Adon was going to force her to have relations with him. Knowing how dangerous the man and his clan w...
She knew that whatever Daniel talked about with Patrus, it certainly hadn’t been whether she was going to steal the hotel towels. Daniel placed his saddlebag on a bed and started to unpack some of the small bribes in it. He had a suspicion that they were going to need them and more to stay out of...