Eden found herself asking on the quiet, tension filled ride back to the mansion a while later. In fact, she hadn’t meant to say anything at all and inwardly cursed her wayward mouth, hating that she’d goaded herself to filling the deafening silence. Seated once more across from him, she was privy...
The issue, Roan was quick to realize, did not lie within himself or his ears, but rather in the doe-eyed girl staring expectantly up at him, the violent flush coating her caramel skin, notwithstanding. “You want me to what?” He thought he sounded relatively calm despite th...
The system gave a half a second beep before the screen faded to black. "Useless piece of shit," she cursed under her breath. "Hurry the hell up!" Keeping her heeled foot on the gas pedal she continued at a steady pace down the heavily wooded road which would've been pret...
The seconds zipped through. Each lapse of time was another painful reminder that her children were still missing. Amber alerts had been put out. Squad cars were parked outside her home, while others combed the quiet streets of the small suburban town, in search of the kidnappers. Ellie was beyond...
Ellie mindlessly admired the simple beauty of it as she dug inside her coat pocket for her keys. She hadn't lied when she'd told Sandy and Josh that all she wanted to do was go home, get a shower and go straight to bed. What she wouldn't do for the warm comforts of her bed...