A chance encounter of complete opposites. A way to let go of a single minded focus for just one night.An attraction that goes beyond the bedroom but due to the rules of their time together and the directions their lives are taking them in, that’s all it can be. Or is it?Rachel is a heroine who re...
Sleek dark hardwoods and a remodeled floor plan give the downstairs an open feel, although several rich period details remain—delicate wood trim and tiled fireplaces and wall sconces with bronze scrollwork. We pass briefly by the parlor opening where several men are gathered around a coffee table...
It's dangerous." Scott runs a hand through his dark curls and paces the living room of his apartment. I scoff and shake my head in frustration, glaring at him from my seat on his couch. He has no leg to stand on here, which I’ve already reminded him of a hundred times. At ...
As I approach, he jams his finger onto his phone to hang up, then slides his phone into his pocket. He takes my bag and places a hand on the small of my back to guide me out of my apartment and through the building. We’re silent as we walk. I’m grateful for this moment of calm so I can think, but...
Instead, I huddle farther down into the mattress, wrapping the warm, down comforter more securely around my body. Charlene moves around to the side of her bed that I had claimed in the wee hours of this morning, when I had snuck in here because I couldn’t bear to be alone. Not when I had just lef...
The way we fit together melts my anxiety about just what exactly I’m doing there and makes me want him again. I shouldn’t have slept with him. This wasn’t the closure I longed for. It was an opening. I could blame it on the endorphins he saturated my body with, or latent altitude sickness. Tempor...