My adrenaline had kicked in, and I concentrated it on getting my head into the Wallace Errand. The moment I’d stormed off of Callahan Industries, I’d been able to put all that had happened and everything that had been said in my office to the back of my mind. It wouldn’t stay there forever, or ev...
IF I didn’t realize some of it soon, I was afraid I would be overwhelmed by it. I was already possessed by it, so there was no place further to go than to be crippled under the weight of it.For the first time in years, more than one person’s name was on that revenge list. The name that had domina...
Paul asked, shrugging deeper into his down jacket. “For the experience,” I answered. “And you can’t get a carrot this fresh in a grocery store.” I handed him one of the carrots in my basket to prove my point. He turned it over, looking unimpressed. “It’s a carrot. Any one of the fifty stores we p...
I tried to keep the guilt at bay, to keep remorse from sabotaging me, but they were powerful opponents. Not even five minutes after Cole’s chest was falling up and down evenly in sleep did I feel the guilt, or the remorse, or both, break through my defenses. When they did, they nearly crippled me...