In Her Place Novels & Stories

She asked calmly while still focused on her book. "What chapter are you now?" I asked as she replied, "I'm still on chapter 5. I just couldn't stop reading this part." I then looked at her with curiousness, "What's written on it?" "It is just some short poem. Do you want me to read it to you?" She asked as she looked up at me. "Of course," I said. "Hallways feel like closed space the floor is cold as ice. Kids embraced me with gross stares,

I'm dead curious about what she has to say so I waited for her to add more to the first sentences she uttered. "No, I mean me being here, I was offered by Reid to be the cover of his new venture for the company, to launch Sta. Inez's beauty, I remember the days I spent in that paradise with Reid it so magical" What? I didn't know Reid and Liz are still talking? And Liz went to Sta. Inez before too? I manage to not display a frowning face for her, I fake a smile and said, "oh yes I heard, congrats, that's nice"

My place is nice, but it’s nothing out of the ordinary, which makes me wonder about her living conditions. Looking back at her, I quirk a questioning brow. “Where do you live?” I ask casually. Her face flushes with embarrassment before she replies. “In a little apartment in Brooklyn.” Seeing her discomfort, I take her hand and lead her to the living room couch. Her eyes glow beneath the light as she gazes intently into my eyes. “Listen, Delcan, I don’t usually do this, but there’s just something about you that intrigues me and…” She drifts off nervously and looks at me from beneath the fringes of her lashes. She’s so beautiful and innocent at that moment that it takes my breath away.

Vadas POV Well, well. Who finally decided to step in the light?! He gives the impression to be wilder than before. I guess his hidden place in the forest did no good to him. Still, his charisma is rocking the crowd. All creatures present in the room are dropping their mouths. Murmurs spreading like a wildfire. That hasn’t changed. I look down at my baby. Her face is one of total indifference or so she tried, but, I caught a glimpse of fury. Interesting.

Just me. The place was private. Quiet. Expensive enough to keep the nosy ones out, cozy enough that it didn’t feel like some goddamn award gala. Warm lighting. Wooden beams. The kind of place people brought mistresses or made confessions they couldn’t undo. I straightened my collar as the host walked me through the space toward our reserved room. And then I saw her. Fuck. She was already there…seated, back straight, legs crossed, phone resting next to her untouched glass of water. She looked up, and when her eyes met mine, I swear something dropped in my chest.

How much farther was her damn place. “This is me.” She announced. I opened my eyes. I hadn’t even realized we had stopped moving. Her building was fancy. Too fancy for an investigative journalist. I narrowed my eyes at her. She must have seen the expression on my face because she just laughed. “you’re wondering how I can afford this place, aren’t you? Maybe if you had collected my number, we could have gone out for lunch and I would have told you.” I sighed. “goodbye, Lena.”

Blaire entered the auction hall and walked toward her seat. Just as she was about to sit down, the chair behind her was suddenly pulled away. She didn't react in time and fell to the ground with a thud. The sharp pain in her tailbone made her face turn pale. When she was about to get up, a glass of red wine was poured over her head. Her meticulously prepared dress and makeup were ruined in an instant, and the once-quiet auction hall erupted in laughter.

One place nobody could get to her. When Erin got out of the shower, she had put on a clean set of clothes. She was towel drying her long hair and her eyes were bloodshot from the amount she’s cried since returning home. “We need to get you out of here,” Henry said to her; she paused and glanced up at him. “Where will I go?” She asked. “There’s only one place I could think of…” Her face fell as she read his expression; she knew what he was thinking already. He didn’t need to speak it out loud.

A karaoke machine is also available in the room. She saw Mrs Quinn the moment she entered.The Woman is drinking wine and snacking on chips. Dora closed the door and sat down before her. "I thought you wouldn't come.I would have visited your parents if you didn't", She said Dora didn't say anything. Mrs Quinn looked irritated as if been in a closed room with her is the last thing she wanted. " A country side bumpkin wanting to be a phoenix?Isn't it funny? Do you think it is just anybody that can climb up the social ladder?", She made some tsk tsk tsk sounds in her throat.

I tell her. She blinks. “Excuse me?” “Get away from this place.” She doesn’t move so I rise slowly instead and the restaurant noise dims around us. Up close, I see it. The tension under her skin and her body position looks ready for a fight and I finally understand that she's no ordinary woman because I finally notice a weapon placement on her thighs “Are you nervous?” she whispers. “Not even a little.” Her hand moves fast but not fast enough as a blade covered in poison flashes from the slit of her dress,