Thanks to her summer internship, she now had tangible experience at making corporate coffee and waiting in line for the copy machine. She joked with her roommates about how invaluable these new skills would be when she took the marketing world by storm after graduation. Only one more year at CIU....
Jen refused to look at him. It was early October and her first time seeing him since their last lesson. By not appearing overly eager, she hoped to assure him that there truly hadn’t been any strings attached to their deal—all she’d wanted from him was a sexual partner so she could gain experienc...
Hayden said.“Me too.” Lyssa smiled.Hayden had flown into Chicago to celebrate their one-year anniversary, which they’d decided to define as the date on which they’d started kissing and never stopped. They sat in the same Old Town restaurant where she’d dined with Sean that fateful night.“You go f...
Kirsten said from the passenger seat.Maggie kept her eyes on the road but jerked her head back. “What makes you say that?”“Nothing makes me say it. It’s just what I believe. I think the devil is just a made up thing that God lets people believe to keep them in line.”Maggie’s insides eased when sh...
They morphed into a loose plan—one that deeply preoccupied her at times. She mentally filled in some of the finer details one late April afternoon as she walked into the study lounge at the student center. She’d gone there with the sole intention of reading a chapter for Sociology class. She noti...
The roar of its engine held Trish in a prolonged flinch as it soared away. Situated many stories above the thousands of spectators on North Avenue Beach, Trish’s colleagues gawked through the windows of a lakeshore hotel. Every mid-August during the air and water show, River South Partners rented...