It was always lust, now it was pure dread. She didn't know how to stand up to Martinez. She feared he would one day decide she was no longer worth it. She would wake up at night sweating guessing if he had decided it was over. She never contemplated he was with someone else. Simple logic told y...
After all, the city was designed by country boys—Mies van der Rohe, Burnham and Root, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan—all wild and dashing, dreaming up the city in the soft thrum of the countryside. But the buildings that most reflect nature, at least midwestern nature,...
Peter Dewalk was a man of mystery. Donna didn’t try too hard to peel back the veil as they walked for nearly two more hours. Nightfall began to creep on the makeshift walking trail in the parking lot of the former home of the world famous Los Angeles Lakers. She figured she’d learn what she n...
Two hours had made the night turn even colder. But I barely noticed. I was scared that somehow I'd never see her again. I had given her the information about what was really going on with her law firm and my parent's estate. That truth may have destroyed her reason to be in Philadelphia. If she...