After too many sleepless nights alone in bed spent playing the events of the past month over and over again, this was the one truth Knox kept circling back around to. He refused to lose Emily over this decision. And though he was no closer to understanding why she’d quit, he was going to fight fo...
Instead, she watched him rub the end of his leg as though trying to erase the silvery scars and red crease marks left from the sleeve, then thrust it toward the camera, rotating the stump end. “There you have it, one gnarly transtibial—” He did a double take at the camera ...
Still, eight o’clock was slow in coming. It wasn’t until Jenna had Tommy by the hand in the parking lot, surrounded by balmy summer air, that she felt the rock budge from on top of her chest. On Tommy’s other side walked Charlene Delgado, who’d been sitting for the Sorentinos since Jenna was a ba...
Goodness knew that’s what John was doing. The rum distillery’s gift shop door was locked and chained closed, so he unloaded the rest of his magazine onto the glass, then shouldered his way out as the barrel room exploded into a belch of flame and violent energy that threw him to the concrete grou...
Her cheeks and nose were red too. So were Jenna’s, he saw after she walked around from the passenger side of the truck. It threw him off something fierce to know Rachel had been crying. He was dying to know what would push her to such an openly emotional state, though he d...
Colton’s bed into a freshly laundered case while admiring the huge diamond ring on her left hand. It hadn’t been there that morning, as far as Kate recalled, and she highly doubted the stone was a real diamond, even if Jenny was flaunting it as though it were. The worst pa...
Decker stirred and wrapped an arm around Carina’s bare stomach, pulling her up against his body and away from the phone she’d been reaching for on the nightstand. He was hot all over and as naked as she was, judging by the hard-on digging into her upper thigh.If she’d only known that marriage cam...
Meadows, we appreciate your loyalty to Agent Reitano, but you’re only shooting yourself in the foot. This is a matter of national security and we need answers.” “I didn’t do anything wrong.” “Then you need to help us out here, because the way this i...
Vanessa’s flashlight was on, pointed at the wall. She lay on her side on the cot, facing the door. He couldn’t tell if she was crying, and he wasn’t sure what he’d do if she was. That was probably his least favorite thing in the world. Took him right back to his mom and si...
Halfway there, she watched his truck drive away. Granny June was having her evening cocktail on her favorite bench near the chapel. “You just missed him,” she called. Remedy trudged the rest of the way and dropped onto the bench. “Yeah. That sucks.” “He was angry, and I figured he’d clashed with ...
At the base of the porch stairs, he flicked the cigarette into the dirt and ground it out with his boot. It was a nostalgic move, one that took Kellan back. He’d seen Vaughn snuff out a cigarette butt the same exact way a million times over the years they’d been friends. A sneaking disquiet oozed...
The caller ID said the call was coming from Virginia. A customer. With a mild curse, she fumbled to mute the music’s volume, lowered Katie into her activity station, and grabbed the receiver. “Cloud Nine Boat Rentals, this is Allison.” Not bad. She’d sounded like she knew ...
Not the occasional whiff of someone who forgot to apply deodorant, but the cloying, inescapable stench of people who, as a habit, did not bathe. The smell was so pungent, Aaron tasted it in his mouth as it hung open, slack and drooling due to the drug he’d been injected with.Time passed indetermi...