Natalie waited impatiently for the display on the stick in her hand to show one or two lines. Seth sat with her, holding her hand. These few minutes felt like a lifetime. “You look at it; I can’t,” she said suddenly. Her emotions swirled as she wished for...
Natalie sat next to Seth’s hospital bed and prayed. It was a long, grueling night as she waited for him to wake up. When her fiancé opened his eyes, she felt a massive sense of relief. “My time is supposed to be up before yours, so you need to stick aroun...
He led her on a longer and more scenic return route from the restaurant, walking off the food, their path leading to a barefoot walk on the beach. She had blushed as he took off her shoes, finding it romantic as he knelt in front of her to remove each one...
"In my opinion, I think I did a good job," Marq said as Honor looked at herself in the mirror. She turned to him, playfully furling her lip. "You're so arrogant, Mr. Haydn." His lips quirked up, self-satisfied. "Well, what do you think? Am I wrong?" She s...
During the re-writing of my ‘Rachel’s Trip To Jamaica’ series, I was describing her choosing a red dress for the party at Naila’s when a vivid picture of a woman in a red dress floated into my mind. Her standing outside a London tube station was so clear...
Stacey had messaged me, and we arranged to meet up at the weekend. Thursday and Friday dragged so badly, and I seemed extra irritable to everyone around me. I emptied out all of my underwear and laid it on my bed and floor. Mum came into my bedroom while...
Nine o’clock at night, and I was sitting at the bar in the casino hotel that I was staying at, slowly tracing the stem of my cocktail glass with the tip of my red lacquered fingernail. My legs were crossed in a ladylike manner, with the hem of my dress ha...
The island was kidney-shaped, with eight villas ringed around its outer concave edge, each with its own small swimming pool, private dock and stretch of beach. There was a larger communal beach with its own set of docks spanning the convex side, leading t...
Mary and Wayne sat in silence in the lounge as they watched Wayne’s wife Wendy leave for her date with Mary’s husband Mike. Strictly speaking, it was not a date, as it had been agreed that Mike would not touch Wendy. However, it was understood that Wendy...
Honor gave in to the impulse and brought them to a stop before they left the cloakroom so she could kiss him and lick around his lips again, easily because her ridiculously high heels made it unnecessary to go on her tip-toes. She had 'cleaned' him up bef...
***Rowan*** It was on Tuesday, May 5, that I met Danni. We all know nothing interesting happens on Tuesdays—well, until it does. I didn’t meet Danni, meet her; I saw her. It was at a meeting about the new park design. I heard her speak, and she intrigued...
Natalie and Seth decided that inviting both sets of parents to dinner at a nice restaurant would be the best way to announce their engagement to them. “They will be less likely to overreact in a public setting,” Seth said. Nat chuckled. “I agree.” “How’s...
The barge was sailing into Bangkok as the sun rose, the sights of the city docks on the Chao Phraya coming to life streaming in through the stateroom's windows on both sides. Honor felt Marq buck underneath her again. This time he called out her name, his...
“Well, alright,” Zoya laughed as she closed the door. It was late afternoon, and she’d just returned to the hotel room to find Emma and the boys lounging on the bed in their underwear. Liam looked a bit sheepish, as if he’d been caught doing something nau...
When I had calmed down, Master and JJ released my legs and my wrists and helped me from the table. Master put his robe back on and JJ pulled his sweat pants up. Then the two of them sat on the couch along one wall of the Haven, and Master had me kneel, st...
