"A husband strays and pays a heavy price before his wife forgives him."
I fucked up. Big time. Like, the biggest fuck up in the history of fuck ups. Let me explain.I married up, way up. If we had been alive 150 years ago, my wife would be the eldest daughter of the...
"Anyone who believes that nothing lasts forever has never met anyone like this amazing man."
If the café had been crowded everything might have been different. With only a few customers, I saw him when he walked in, and he saw me. Our eyes met for only a moment, but he smiled; uncharacteristically, I smiled...
"Awakening your cravings"
My life isn't one that I would call adventurous or exciting. I live a very boring life, which merely consists of going to business class, attending tennis lessons, taking etiquette lessons, and other boring hobbies. Most of it was chosen...
"Abby feels insecure with Vasil's past."
So, I was no longer the lonely Abby Hughes, trying to fill endless hours of boredom when not at work. Every second of my week was filled with looking after Tom and Alex and counting the hours till their father,...
"Sarah tries to figure out what to do next"
We didn’t hang out. He didn’t call. I didn’t text. I’d say that I didn’t wait by the phone, but it's the 21st century; it stayed glued to my hand as I doomscrolled Twitter and compared myself to people on...
"Sarah finds love in the unlikeliest of places."
I never expected to be a barfly, but it turned out to be a pretty good life choice.Six-year-old Sarah expected to be a Disney princess. Hell, I looked like one; Snow White, to be specific: black hair, pale complexion, rosy...
"I love the tender moments with my guy, and if they turn hot and wet... well, that's quite fine too!"
I watched a small herd of seven deer grazing along the lower edge of our meadow where it met the aspens, the darker pines behind rising up the mountainside, and listened to the sound of the wind in the branches...
"A wife confesses; her husband already knows."
Marge was sitting at the small table, looking out the window and wringing her hands together. Her eyes were moist; not full of tears, not yet, but right on the verge. When she heard me enter, though, the first one...
"Two people thrown together explore new heights."
Vicki went shopping. Her entire wardrobe consisted of two pairs of jeans, two t-shirts, two sweaters, functional underwear and a thick coat borrowed from a friend. Nothing that would do for this.Her insurance company had already assured her that the...
"Two people thrown together explore new heights."
“…traumatised.” Vicki flinched as he said it. Yes, that’s what I am. Traumatised. A silly girl responding to my Knight because I’m ‘traumatised’. She pushed back from him, waiting until he’d finished talking on his radio. “I’m not traumatised,” she said, angrily, as...