Christopher stood beside him and Hannah’s dads were behind Ippy and Hannah as they sat in chairs that were far too big for them across the large desk from their alpha. Ippy shrank back, trying to become small in the room full of wolves far more dominant than he. He looked over to Hannah and was s...
The sun was midway in the blue sky and wispy clouds tried to hold their form despite the intense, golden rays. A small fawn scampered through the field without fear of the tall figure traversing closely to it. The animal need not learn of fear in this garden, much to Mariah's intentions. All crea...
The twenty-three-year-old women on TV are nothing like me. I've never been to a party, don't know the first thing about getting an education of any type, and my cell phone is a cheap prepaid thing that has barely enough money on it for one phone call. No, my life may not be the expectation of man...
He promised that she could have it back at the end of the day, but she really wished he’d give it to her now so that she could read all those messages while they ate the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches Christopher made for them. The other kids in the class were giving her dirty loo...
She had goosebumps, but whether it was from the chilly breeze or her own dread of what the night would bring, she couldn’t tell. She was dressed in only a sheet wrapped tightly around her nude frame. She couldn’t help but remember how similar this night seemed to her first night with Faolan. The ...
He supposed he should be happy the man responsible for his brother's death was dead. But he'd taken the coward's way out like Kit expected he might. While the court had been watching the prosecutor as he'd flashed images of Bear, finalizing his image as the "Al-American Boy Next Door" in the mind...
“How did he get worse so fast?” she hissed at Kylin, not daring to take her eyes off the face of her sleeping brother. “Come now, Isabelle, you’re an intelligent young woman. Why do you think his illness is back?” the man grumbled. “You can’t possib...
He stopped at the door and turned back to look over the grass hillside that lay around his little patch of the world. He’d signed the deed to the house only just the night before, claiming the house for himself. And the two people he loved. He expected them to come in toda...
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He wiped his hands on his jeans and was about to stand up when the shine of metal caught his attention. Picking it up, he was surprised that it appeared to be a small metal coin, though not one that he'd ever seen before. He walked back to the house with his head down, his attention focused on th...
I kept my hand on the back of his neck as I sat down next to him in the empty chair. “Hi,” he murmured. I forced a smile, even though I wasn’t exactly comfortable being there. “Hey. Can I get you anything?” Trent shook his head, then laid his cheek against Simon’s hand. I didn’t look at Simon and...