The too-interested glances quickly averted; the undertones; the murmurs. Poor Kate. If she heard—or sensed—that phrase one more time, she’d scream. Her and her big, big mouth. Why, oh, why had she made...
What kind of guy considered the essentials of life to be condoms and chocolate? “Danny!” Matt groaned as he picked up a Hershey’s bar and slammed it down again on the table. “His stupid idea of a joke.” “Danny?” Cristy asked, her brow furrowed. “Who’s Danny?” The anguish in Matt’s voice surprised...
Apparently Brutus and Max had not gotten along as well as anticipated. But the older woman assured them she was quite sure the two animals would get used to each other with a little time—and separate living spaces. And, yes, it was still quite okay to leave Brutus with Nora on Wednesday, audition...
She was a long way from home, here in the countryside near Dorchester, in the county of Dorset in the south-west of England. In her less-than-steady hand she held the smartphone Tristan had insisted on leaving with her on the last day she’d seen him. It was only afterwards...
Idly she shook it so the snow danced all around the little plastic dog in the striped scarf. The flakes settled in drifts around his tiny toy feet. No matter what was happening in that toy’s world it kept on smiling its static doggy grin. That was just how she felt today, a smile hovering around ...
At talking the talk when it came to commercial success. While still at university he had come up with a concept for ground-breaking software tools to streamline the digital workflow of large businesses. His friend Dominic Hunt had backed him. The resulting success had made a great deal of money f...
Blissful memories of Joe’s mouth on hers, her hands in his, flitted in and out of her mind, even when she was nailing down the final numbers of a deal worth multiple millions. He had wanted her as much as she’d wanted him. She was sure of that. But he’d ended the kiss so abruptly, said nothing ab...
In the three days since their dance on the beach they’d managed not to arouse suspicion. Neither of them wanted to be subject to the inevitable teasing the revelation they were dating would bring. To him, Lizzie was not just one in a stream of ‘Jesse’s girls’. As far as he was concerned, she was ...
No. Not run away. Find a new perspective. Yes, that sounded good. Positive. Affirming. Challenging. No way would she give even a second’s thought to any more heartbreak. She’d taken the first step by driving the heck out of S...
It was very early, pale sunlight filtering through the blinds. He reached out his hand to the sofa beside him in the vain hope that Andie might still be there, only to find the leather on that side disappointingly cool to the touch. He closed his eyes again and breathed in the scent of her that l...
The episode meant nothing, she realised in the days that followed. Days where she saw very little of Declan and neither of them mentioned the incident. The longer it went unsaid, the less likely it would ever be aired. The Rapunzel incident—as she had begun to call it in h...