Lost in perfume and honeyed skin, he’s so weak he can barely move his limbs. Yet she touches him and he hardens, and craves her scalding tongue and the tight moist passage between her legs. She cleanses him of sweat and bodily secretions with a cool damp cloth and feeds him from her fingers. She ...
I regularly shopped there for my favorite blends in Coffee You and Me, and the best bread rolls and sausage in the valley from Valley Market. I saw the door which gives access to Bel-Athaer, but never went near it; I liked to pretend it wasn’t there. It is an old, heavy oak door, perhaps the orig...
“Damn this is good!” Royal’s eyes crinkled. “Everything tastes good when you work up an appetite.” We sat at a trestle table in the bar. I swallowed, beamed at him, popped in another crisp, crunchy onion and chewed. He took a swig of dark beer and wiped the foam from his mouth with a paper napkin...
I didn’t want to see the victims late at night, when everything seems worse than it is. The reality would be bad enough. I woke folded to Royal’s side, my leg over his flat belly, my cheek on his chest. “Mm.” His lips touched my hair. “Morning, sweetheart.” “Oh, god. I don’t want it to be morning...
Bel stopped walking. “Go ahead. I will join you Downside.” In Carmel, he explained he must enter Downside unseen but getting through The Station unnoticed seemed a bit of a stretch. Royal nodded and continued. He didn’t look back when, near the light, the great wooden door opened, followed by the...
@page { margin-bottom: 2.000000pt; margin-top: 2.000000pt; } Chapter Eighteen A half-hour later and Gorge’s Antique Emporium would have been locked up for the night. We walked in to find Gorge amid antique furniture and display cabinets, chatting to two customers as he wrote them a receipt. He gl...
“It’s new, not listed in the phone directory yet. There is a nameplate by the elevator, but does that indicate it is a private elevator to their floor, or the agency uses all four?” We got to our feet simultaneously, but Royal went through the kitchen door first and up the stairs to my bedroom. I...