Snuggling deeper into the overstuffed sofa, she watched Santa’s feet emerge from the chimney. He wriggled his girth backward to free himself, displaying an impressive plumber’s crack above the fur-trimmed red suit bottoms before he stood and hiked up his pants. She stifled a giggle, startling him...
Although Liam had done his best to drive slowly and carefully, he’d had to swerve and slam on his brakes twice—once for a cyclist with a death wish and once for a minicab that pulled out of an alley and nearly blindsided them. Driving in London: more of an adrenaline rush than eighty minutes on a...
She’d known it, of course, but listening to his end of the conversation was like hearing the final nail being hammered into her fledgling hope they could have something lasting. His breathless excitement—that had killed her. As if he couldn’t believe his luck. For those mo...
—Zig Ziglar Wyatt took a long sip of the brew Jason Grey kept on tap at his bar and tried not to look at the time. Austin and their dad should’ve been there by now for their weekly catch-up. He refused to think of it as a date, though one of his exes had called his relationship with Austin a brom...
Lacey laid its teeth against a spruce’s bark, feeling the saw’s bite in the way it tried to leap from her hands. She held her grip steady and slowly fed the metal through the tree’s trunk. The saw’s eager, throaty growl turned into a high whine as it slid through the wood before jerking out the o...
She fumbled with the zipper on an inside compartment. “My phone. I have to find my phone.” “You won’t get a signal here.” “I have to find my phone!” She was panicked, and his bad leg stopped him from kneeling next to her to calm her down. All he could do was stand over her. He put the radio on th...
It was gone eleven, well past his bedtime, but he’d grown to hate crawling into bed alone. Besides, it was a Friday night, so she wouldn’t have to wake up early the next morning and he didn’t have to be at the training ground until the afternoon.He knocked on her door and waited. And waited. Afte...