Reese

The Favor: A Chronicle Retelling

“She’s not going to do it,” Sebastian said, not bothering to look up from the book that he’d helped himself to from her backpack while she tried to figure out why Cole and Jonathan were staring at her. “You don’t know that,” Cole said as he gave her a hopeful smile that matched Jonathan’s. “I really do,” Sebastian said, sounding bored as he reached over and helped himself to the PB&J sandwich that his mother made for her. “Know what?” Mikey asked, rolling her baseball between her hands as she sat there, trying to find the willpower to do her homework. “We need… Read More

The Barbecue Challenge

An R.L. Mathewson Chronicle

Something felt...off.

She couldn’t quite figure out what that something was, but whatever it was had Mikey reaching down with trembling hands and grabbing hold of her comforter. Swallowing hard, she pulled the comforter up to her chin as she slowly took in her bedroom, from the outline of her bedroom door that she could barely make out in the dimly lit room to the soft moonlight that spilled into her room, and felt a chill race… Read More

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Bradford Style

An R.L. Mathewson Chronicle

“Never gonna happen,” Reese said as he grabbed his Coke while Zoe sat there, running her eyes over him, taking in everything from his short, neatly styled black hair, sunglasses that gave him that bad boy look, and freshly shaved chisel jaw before taking in the crisp, dark blue uniform that hugged his muscular build just right.

As she took in the utility belt lined with… Read More

And So it Begins… Part VII

“I’d really like to go home now,” came the softly whispered words that had Reese looking up from his food to find the bench across from him empty.

Frowning, he stood up only to find Mikey curled up in the fetal position on the other bench. When he opened his mouth to ask her what was wrong, she slowly raised a damning finger and pointed to his right. Curious, Reese followed the gesture to find Sebastian sitting on the other side of the restaurant, slowly rolling what looked like one of Mikey’s baseballs between his hands as he kept his… Read More

And So It Begins… Part VI An R.L. Mathewson Chronicle

“One hundred dollars,” came the quietly mumbled words that had Mikey frowning as she dropped another piece of fried chicken on her plate.

“Two hundred,” came the follow-up before she got a chance to look over her shoulder to find Uncle Jared standing behind her.

“For…” Mikey prompted since she’d learned her lesson in agreeing to anything before finding out the details to avoid situations like this… Read More

The Great Lockdown of 2020 Part VI

“It’s just that,” his son, who he loved more than anything, said as he shifted to get more comfortable on the bed between them with a heavy sigh, “I think things would have gone differently if I’d chosen the dog instead of the top hat.”

“Why are you here?” Trevor asked as he laid there on his stomach, biting back a groan as his erection that had been enjoying the way his wife had been running her hands over him finally died while the reason that he hadn’t been able to make love to his wife for the past five… Read More

The Great Lockdown of 2020 Part II

“Oh, this is bad,” Trevor said as he stood there, rubbing the back of his neck as he watched the reason that his cousin was going to kill him somehow manage to make it the rest of the way up onto his roof.

“Mikey, sweetheart,” Zoe said, trying not to panic as she looked around for something to make this right while Trevor stood there, biting back a curse because he’d left his fucking ladder at the house that he was flipping on Oak Street. “Why don’t you come down here so that we can talk?”

“Social distancing! Social distancing!” the… Read More

A Bradford Christmas Part II

“I hope you choke on it, bitch!” one of Lucifer’s cousins said, she wasn’t exactly sure which one, as he took down another unnamed relative while Rebecca sat there, popping a Hershey Kiss in her mouth, debating if she should tell them that she spotted another tray of cupcakes in the fridge when the painfully familiar sigh came.

“What did you do now?” her husband asked as he joined her on the couch just as his cousin used a chokehold that actually impressed her and-

“You mean… Read More

Daddy’s Little Girl: Part VIII & The Latest News About Devastated

“There’s no reason to panic,” Mikey said and if she hadn’t said that as her legs gave out, he probably would have believed her.

“Oh, that can’t be good,” Cole said, rubbing his trembling hands down as his face as he stared down at Mikey while Jonathan, who’d decided to come help them after he’d spotted them walking to the baseball field on his way home, mumbled, “There’s so much blood.”

“I’m fine,” Mikey said, nodding to herself as Sebastian carefully lowered her to the ground.

“And all this blood?” Sebastian asked, looking paler by the second as Trevor knelt by her… Read More

Mother’s Day Done Right

“Daddy, there’s something wrong with Happy,” Mikey whispered urgently as she pulled on his arm.

“What’s going on?” Reese asked, allowing himself to be pulled out of bed as he struggled to wake up and make sense out of what was going on even as he remembered to grab the small white box with a tiny green ribbon tied around it out of his nightstand and left it on his pillow in case his wife woke up while he was gone.

“Please!” Mikey whispered, her voice breaking at the end as she pulled him towards his bedroom… Read More