Caught Up In Between Novels & Stories

I take my usual route to work, stopping at my usual bakery for coffee. But it's not a typical morning because I didn't see him. I'm restless and everything is moving in a sluggish motion, voices and car engines ringing in my ears, like I'm trapped in a fun house. I'm going through Locke withdrawals, aren't I? Yes, that's what this is. And it's twice as intense because I've touched him now. Spent time with him. I didn't get my daily dose.

I said, because it was true, and because it seemed like the right thing to give back. She almost smiled. It wasn't quite an apology for the cage, for my nose bleeding onto the sand, for the things she'd said about my hair and my face while she stood over me ready to claw both apart. But it was something, an acknowledgment passed quietly between us in the noise of the festival, and I decided to take it for what it was worth. The drums picked up before I could think too hard about it, and Erin grabbed my wrist, dragging me toward the dancing circle that had formed near the center of the square.

My heart that had slowed to normal speed jumpstarted, the jolt sending shock waves throughout my body. An arm went around my waist as a hand covered my lips. In a fraction of a second, I was held tightly against a hard body. "He said you'd try this.” Bryce’s low growl came near my ear. “I told him you were smarter than that. I guess I was wrong."

like believe him. Or smile. Or cry. I needed to get out of here. I took a step, but I misjudged the angle. And just like before, I tripped. This time, I was sure I was going down, face-first. But in the blink of an eye, he was there. And once again, he caught me.

I was too focused on what was behind me. And that’s when I crashed—hard—into someone. I stumbled back, hit the ground, and clutched my throbbing head. Then I looked up—and my breath caught. Kai.

I look back at my case study options and I add a fourth one and then immediately cross it out before I can finish writing it. But the two words are still visible under the single line. False testimony.

I saw stars behind my eyelids, my mouth open in a soundless wail of ecstasy and guilt. For a long moment, there was only the pounding of my heart and the feel of him, spent and heavy, inside me. He stayed there for a few seconds, catching his breath. Then, after one more slow, erotic thrust, he pulled out. I felt the empty ache, followed by the warm trickle of our combined fluids flowing down my used cunt. Just then, Mark’s phone buzzed loudly and I jerked my head to him. He cursed under his breath. “Damn it. I’m so sorry, Jen, Doctor. It’s work. The Millbury account—they’re having a crisis meeting now.” He sounded genuinely distressed. “I have to go. It’s the biggest client at the firm.”

"She looked at those six files the day they arrived and she's been thinking about two of them ever since. I could tell." "Which two," I said. "The youngest one," he said. "Nineteen, Were-adjacent. And the one with the high-range pull assessment." The youngest was named Jess. The high-range pull was a man named Farrukh, twenty-seven. "She talked to you about them," I said. "She mentioned them in passing twice," he said. "Rea mentions things in passing when she's decided something." "You're tracking her communication patterns," I said. "I'm paying attention," he said. "It's what I do."

Because that was time the stakeholders were also busy having a board meeting. It was like the world around me during this time became much more elaborately complex, every detail pronounced like zooming into a high definition photograph, Each pixel of color began to stand out on its own like taunting dots, mocking with wicked grins as if they were hiding each secret. I was on my deep thoughts when I heard Aki asked, "Are ya' alright?" I was taken aback when she slapped my left arm. I winced and I furrowed my brows at her. I gently shook my head, up and down, lips turning up.

Or we will get two as well? I finally finish uni, and head into town to meet some mates; I'm half way there when my phone bleeps loudly; a message, and I carelessly pull it out from my pocket without looking where I'm going, only to fall into someone, both of us falling to our butts. "Second time today!" A soft, crisp voice sounds through the wind. I look up into a pair of emerald green eyes, eyes that have me hooked. "Mate." I grin along side my wolf, only to be greeted with a look of horror and confusion.