People crowded the entire floor of his Roman house and spilled outside into the manicured gardens. He followed a stream of inebriated guests jumping from tile to tile on the flagstone path heading toward the pool and showed them the dressing rooms where they could change in privacy. Pietro, his m...
He thought that if he kept thinking of her, her features would be etched forever in his mind and he would never forget how she looked or how she smelled. But memories are tricky companions and tend to betray one’s heart. Days and weeks passed. The guards had resumed their usual alertness. Cells w...
Sunlight came through the light-blue venetian blinds and illuminated the room in black and white stripes. Stardust sparkled in the slivers of white light, reminding her of summers from her youth, when she had been a little girl and spent time at her grandmother’s villa by the sea. All around, the...
Stranded on foot—he had left his bike down at the Metro garage—he briefly wondered if he could get away by entering one of the posh shops dotting the street. One look at his leather jacket, dirty black jeans, and scuffed combat boots, and he dismissed the idea; he would stand out like a sore thum...
By the time he reached Alexander’s, it was already officially Valentine’s Day by several hours. While Marcus drove back with him since he had left his car by Samuel’s, the rest of the group had called for cabs. The four of them, plus the two kids and a wheelchair wouldn’t ...
She opened her eyes to stare at a vengeful vision grabbing Giulio by his arm, the one holding the belt he had been repeatedly hitting her with. A mountain of a man, impossibly large and tall, tossed Giulio against the wall behind her bed. Then the man turned toward her and...