Leila asked over the dinner table. Liam and Abigail both stared at her in horror. They’d barely arrived in Newquay, after a four-hour drive that had all the comforts of family. Together they’d eaten their way through strawberry laces, drunk cans of Diet Coke, and played quizzes on Liam’s iPad as ...
Each time, Cain told her, “Sweetheart, why don’t you pull up those vintage-style panties I’m sure you’re wearing and sit tight.” She told him he was lucky he was driving the car or he’d be sporting a black eye. “Anti-violence, Madeline,” he reminded her. Their house hunting had been almost two mo...
She’d been told to stay in the chauffeur driven car and he’d disappeared. After ten minutes, he returned with a glossy bag with the name Dairaku embossed on both sides. “What’s…?” He tapped her on the nose. “No. Now. For food.” Leaving the bag to one side, he caught her hand and pulled her out of...
Lauren hissed over the stall of the ladies’ room. Sabra, partway through adjusting her breasts in her corset, halted. “How long ago?” “Just turned up.” Sabra breathed out softly, biting into her bottom lip to hold back a triumphant grin. Of course he was here. Why wouldn’t he respond to the blata...
It was more of an exercise to open her eyes to the world he inhabited, the one she was so quick to judge. If they both got a little pleasure out of it, good for them. Or rather, me. His producer had raised eyebrows at the thought of a film critic on set, moreover being an extra, but Sean persuade...
To: Courtney Phillips yapalot@g... Date: 15 May 2010 Re: You We all went out tonight, and you’ll have to forgive me if nothing makes sense about this email, but there was beer and someone had Jack Daniel’s. I’m kinda pissed. No, I am pissed. And the whole night I was thinking, where’s Court tonig...