Stroke. Breathe. Stroke. Stroke. Breathe. Sloan’s sun flushed skin prickled quickly in the cool water. For the next twenty minutes, she focused on the rhythm. She released every concern from her mind and swam. No, in hooker mode her legs couldn’t kick as furiously as she wanted nor arms stroke as...
Stroke. Breathe. Stroke. Stroke. Breathe. Sloan’s sun flushed skin prickled quickly in the cool water. For the next twenty minutes, she focused on the rhythm. She released every concern from her mind and swam. No, in hooker mode her legs couldn’t kick as furiously as she wanted nor arms stroke as...
She didn’t talk about this, not with anyone, but nothing short of an equally grand gesture would get Zach on her side. “Yes.” She whispered the word to keep the bile churning in her gut from erupting. “Then…” The striated muscles in his jaw danced. ...
Street dragged the razor over his cheek. The quad-blades blazed a trail through the suds, leaving smooth skin in its wake. He maneuvered the cutting edge around his ear lobe, and then rinsed the tool under the steaming water. Isay Polzin lived by his own set of rules. The ...
“It’s amazing, a child’s resilience.” Sloan sank into the last seat in the row to her left and whispered the words as though she’d thought them and accidentally said them aloud. “You can’t let them go into the system,” Piper countered. “You’re right...
The angel whispered into his ear. He sighed and pulled her closer. His lips found flesh and feasted. His angel giggled. “You may as well stop that. I haven’t had a shower and I have morning breath…bad. I can’t believe you let me go to sleep in my clothes.” “Me either,” he ...
Her heart thudded inside her chest as though one was, with fingers outstretched ready to drag her into a dark New York alley. Lexie filled her lungs, and then slowly released the breath through Russian Red lips. The MAC cosmetics color typically perked her disposition. Today, it lacked the desire...
For all the fucking analytical skills in the world, he’d never understand women. Especially not one as complex as Cara was. He wanted to, though. He sat with his back to hers. A door between them. A door and something else that had nothing to do with his tenderhearted tendency toward taking lives...
The sight and sound gave the only indication he’d left the snow. His feet tingled with numbness part-way up the trail. The tingles turned to shards of glass slicing his soles with each step for the next half. He pushed through the discomfort. Sophie’s eyelids drooped lower and lower, despite the ...
Law said. Khani groaned into the line. “Street confirmed the pick-up. Law, the blokes from Baine’s were dead-ends, literally. Low-level knuckle draggers. You said these two were professionals. They’ll be in the system. We’ll intercept the second one at the morgue. One way ...