Even after narrowing the search results to only include full-grown women, Acia was still struck by the sheer numbers of people on one tiny planet. Other than holding his mouth really tightly, Shunyuan did not show how the files affected him. Yet, through their link, Acia understood this could pos...
M120039E-007X CONTINUED DEPOSITION OF: John Savas CBD: And so the computer records led you to the warehouse on Long Island? MR. SAVAS: No. The hard drives melted down. CBD: I’m sorry? MR. SAVAS: Well, not literally. But all t...
Look at your arms. There are no scars are there? You appear as you want to appear.” The ghost scrutinized the front and back of her arms and hands; when she’d completed the exercise, the Necromancer knew she was gaining the girl’s trust. Just short of seven years old when she died, her parents ha...
It's not even definite, and at worst it would be one evening over dinner." "But you promised." Catherine sulked. "You said it would be just us and you weren't even going to carry a phone." "But it will be just the two of us," Ash consoled genuinely. He had no intention of allowing work to intrude...
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Panicked and free to move she looked around expecting to find Jagar, but she once again found herself in the comfortable confines of her room, wrapped in her down comforter. Max was still there in bed, in the same position she remembered last. There were no more green lights, yet the sun was star...
I feel like I could stay tucked up in bed for a hundred years. Instead, I delay the inevitable by staring at the glow-in-the-dark stickers on my ceiling. I stuck them up after I’d been to a party at my classmate Ella’s house – one of the few Talented parties I’ve ever attended. Her house was one ...
They look like white Christmas stockings. He says he always gets his socks and shoes ready. You never know when you’ll have to run out somewhere. “It’s from my old war days. It stayed with me. We never took off our shoes when we were out in the field no matter how bad the jungle rot got on our fe...
Carlos and Pablo and Álvaro were there, and Álvaro had brought his son, Ulises. Ulises was good and young and full of fire. Echave had considered him for the team meant to kill Matt Clifford but had decided at the last moment to hold him back. Given the way things had gone, he was glad of that ch...
Mum had returned to religion, then, after I left. Maybe she thought God was the only being out there who understood her, the only one who would give the answers she sought. I mean, she was the type who would claim to hear God's words in her mind when really they were her own. She'd manipulate wha...
Josh asked, taking her hand in his. “As I’ll ever be.” She grinned. They pushed open the door and started to run, their feet pounding into the pavement in time with the rain. It was a downpour. That was the only thing to call it. Thunder rumbled in ...
He had never had anything like this happen. He raised his bow and sighted down the arrow at the moving grass. He didn’t see the cat. It must be crouched low. He waited for it to show itself, but it didn’t. Should he stay there and wait the beast out or try and make it to his lodge? He liked the s...
Finally, she sank into one of the four buttery-soft leather chairs. Jovie ran a hand through her hair and glanced around the intimate space. Unlike the other conference room, this one could only accommodate four people. Heavy oak shelves lined one wall, filled with all sorts of books ranging from...
The weeks of brilliant early summer weather had broken, finally, and the slate-coloured skies of the last twenty-four hours had opened up. She steered the Astra carefully, uncertain of the route. It was a part of Pemberham with which she was unfamiliar, the south side, mor...
They had been unhappy with their father’s appointment of Kanaung as heir apparent, and relations between uncle and nephews had worsened over time. The two princes had once been caught stealing into the palace in the middle of the night after an evening of frolicking outside (and, according to on...