It sat there in a jumble because Aunt Anna frowned against vanity of any kind; that was probably one of the reasons she disliked my mother so much. I carefully opened the box and the hinges creaked as if in protest at being removed from their dark hiding place. Nothing really looked like it was o...
Closing my eyes, I stood under the spray but it didn’t soothe me. All I saw in my mind was Luca looking at Rachel. It would be better if there had been lust on his face. Lust I could deal with, but this was just a cold nothing. I shivered despite the heat of the water. When I came out of the bath...
“I’ve got stuff to do. I’ll be back later,” he told me as he walked me to the front door and then left me, heading back to his car while the day nurse opened the door for me. She gave a shaky smile and I realized that she smelt like alcohol. “How are you feeling?” she asked. “Oh, you’ve done some...
She got straight to work giving orders that I followed diligently. That was part of the reason that I liked working for her. There was no idle chitchat or conversation that went off task. Part of me was curious as to what had happened at the building that we had just been at, but I knew better th...
It was a good way to escape the mundane life that was mine. In the water, all I had to do was concentrate on breathing and moving my body. After tiring myself out, I would climb up on the platform and soak up the early morning sun. I knew it was Joseph immediately swimming toward me, his motions ...
I could feel that Brody was tense as he drove and it surprised me that he did what his father wanted. “Did you go there when you were a kid?” I asked him after the silence had stretched on too long. “I never went anywhere when I was a kid, he didn’t...