Chapter Six “You’re pretty calm today, Matt.”They sat in James’ office for their daily session. Thirty minutes in and he hadn’t started pacing. But he didn’t feel the need, amazingly enough. Only managing about six hours of sleep the night before—but they were the best six hours he’d slept in ...
The music still invaded his room, even after one of the nurses closed the door for him. Rebel thumbed the volume louder on the television, hoping to mute the insidious little ditty before it wormed further into his brain. A cramp fisted in his thigh and Rebel dropped the remote, digging his finge...
Yet she did nothing of the kind. Instead, she studied him with gentle, liquid black eyes that saw right down to his soul. “Okay. Those jars need to go on that shelf.” He glanced down at the grayish powder and shifted to reach the shelf she indicated. “What is this?” “It’s for pottery. They mix it...
Instead, she had to sit, chin propped on her palm, elbow on her knee, and watch him. Not that watching him was a terrific hardship. “You know it would go faster if we were both gathering wood.” “It will go slower if you wrench your ankle—which you tried to do twice on the way down here.” The man ...
Coldness climbed through her limbs, an icy sensation pumping through her blood with every beat of her sluggish heart. Heidi sat behind the desk, a single manila folder in front of her and an unreadable expression on her face. Grasping the back of a guest chair, Kiki leaned her weight on it. “I’m ...
“John-John, did we get in those sides of beef we ordered?”“Yes, sir.” The chef gave him a squinty-eyed look from behind the silver racks in front of him. “What’s on your mind, Mr. Damon?”Letting go of the door as the last waitress passed, he considered the whole of the kitchen. Every pair of hand...
Any other time, Ryker would be in Wolf form, racing through the hills. Unlike so many in the broken pack, the moon had never bound him. Though her sway didn’t call to him as it did to the others, the lack had never prevented him from joining the hunt each month, when the moon-called shifted, and ...
Buckley. He faced the courtroom dressed in a new suit he hadn’t purchased as they dangled the bait of freedom. The suit still stank of human tailors, a fact which barely registered past the curtain of his isolation. Not even the presence of a dominant male wolf acting as his attorney ruffled him....
Deep breathing quieted the gurgles in her stomach.“Oh, come on, not you, too.” Jodi’s voice came from somewhere behind her. But Lillianna didn’t dare sit up and look at her boss. “Go home, Lil. Get some rest. I’ll find someone to cover your shift.”“I’ll be fine.” Lillianna exhaled a hard breath a...
It was also the worst, since they were stymied in their hunt for a killer. Gillian found her freedom curtailed more than ever before. Owen never left her side, nor did Brett, save for when she and Owen retreated to their room. The Alpha’s distress, barricaded by his stern visage and carefully mod...
Slotting it onto a charger, he slid it into the drawer. “Enter.” His brother’s secretary, opened the door and curtseyed politely. “Excuse me, Prince Sebastian, but His Highness requests you join him in his office.” “I will be along directly. Thank y...