Chronicles

A Lovely Stroll Through the Woods

“It’s not that bad,” Dani managed to get out with a straight face, which became difficult to maintain when Caine slowly turned his head to lock her with a glare that she shouldn’t find amusing, but did.

“We’re no longer speaking,” Caine said slowly, enunciating every rage-fueled syllable as she pretended to find the foliage marking their trail interesting.

“Fair enough,” she said with a nod, because she really couldn’t blame him.

Terrified that the smile that she was struggling to hold back would break free at any moment, she cleared her throat and tried to get her mind off the glowering… Read More

A Pyte Valentine

“Why am I here?” Chris asked, closing his eyes as he settled more comfortably on the hotel bed.

“Because I need help,” Madison said distractedly as she continued to do whatever it was that she was doing with all those candles.

“With what exactly?” he asked, slowly exhaling as he relaxed on the soft down comforter.

“Setting up the room,” she said, making him wonder if she really knew him at all.

“You’re doing fine,” he said, having absolutely no idea if she was or not and not really caring, not when he could sneak in a nap before he had to go… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part VI

“Go away,” Zoe mumbled into her pillow as the bastard that she never should have married ran his fingers over her side, tickling her and once again stopping her from going back to sleep.

“Don’t you love me anymore?” Trevor asked, sounding like he was pouting as he continued to tickle her ribs.

“No!” she shouted with a sob as she rolled over onto her side and curled into a ball.

“But, baby, I wuv you so much!” the sick bastard said in a syrupy sweet voice as he curled his large, and most importantly, warm body around… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part V..The Final Cup

“I’m sorry, what?” Zoe asked, blinking hard as she looked up at the child talking to her and frowned, because she couldn’t for the life of her recall his name.

“Mom?” the boy said, watching her with keen interest as he handed her the only thing that would save her at this moment.

“Oh, thank god,” she mumbled reverently as she cupped the precious elixir from the gods.

“Can I get you anything else, mother?” the boy asked with a devious little smile that meant something, but she couldn’t quite figure out what that something was.

Everything was so fuzzy. It was hard… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part IV

“No!” Sebastian snarled in a rushed whisper as he struggled to pull the linen closet door shut as he shot a panicked look past Trevor’s shoulder.

“Open. The. Door,” Trevor said evenly to his son as he kept his hand on the closet door to stop it from closing.

“Dad, please!” he whispered as the rest of the children cowered behind him, squeezing themselves into that small closet while Trevor stood there, shaking his head and sighing heavily as he reluctantly released his hold on the door and allowed his son to shut the door.

“It’s not that bad,” he lied to… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part III

“Water…,” Trevor whispered weakly as he held out a trembling hand towards the bottle of water on the nightstand.

Zoe ran her hungry gaze over her husband’s incredible body, licking her lips and contemplating starting things up again, but the little whimper he made to get her attention had her sighing in resignation and handed the lukewarm water over to her husband that she was almost sixty percent sure wasn’t dying. When he struggled to open the cap off the bottle, she took the bottle and opened it for him, and did her best to ignore the tingling sense of… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part II

“Thank fucking god,” Trevor grumbled as he fell face first onto the mattress, too weak to do anything else as his body trembled with exhaustion from the last six hours that he’d spent trying to distract his wife from her asinine plan.

It had taken everything that he had, but it was worth it, he told himself as he lay there, struggling to catch his breath. By now going on a diet was the last thing on her mind.

At least, it damn well better… Read More

New Year’s Resolution: Part I

“That’s it,” Zoe said, shaking her head, more determined than she’d ever been before. “I’m going on a diet.”

“No,” Trevor said as he walked past her, barely pausing as he gave her bottom an affection pat as he made his way to the shower.

She worried her bottom lip as she stared down at the proof that she’d overdone it in 2016. She had no idea how she’d gained ten pounds since the last time she’d stepped on this scale, but she was damn well going to get it off before Valentine’s Day.

That was it.

She was done playing… Read More

An Excerpt from An Anger Management Novel

“Expiration is…,” Kylie mumbled as she searched the Snickers’ bar that she’d found lodged beneath her seat for an expiration date, “…..February 2010.”

Worrying her bottom lip with indecision, Kylie contemplated eating the candy bar that was six years past its expiration and obviously a parting gift from the last person who’d owned this car. She normally wasn’t big on sweets, especially expired ones, but since she hadn’t had a chance to eat anything since lunch yesterday it was now fair game. She was starving and willing to take a chance on what was most likely going to end up… Read More