“I don’t have any money for you,” Fernando said. This wasn’t exactly true, but as Chico had so sagely put it: Why pay for what you could get for free? The whore shut the door behind them, plunging them both into shadow. “I don’t care,” she growled back at him, driving him up against the
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 37 (Explicit)
Outside on the streets of Saguero, Fernando ambled past closed shops, deserted cafés. After asking around, he knew the general direction of his destination. But the path there he took at random, letting his intuition guide him as much as his senses. His night vision had always been good. Even in the darkness of this
The Pact Side-Stories: Ghost-Hunter Nakamura, Part 1
He was tailing her… Again. Grinding her teeth, she rounded the corner as if nothing were amiss, then ducked into the shadowy alcove of a closed storefront. Heavy rain fell, pattering on the curved slats of the awning, jostling the ribboned streamers which whipped and whistled in the snatches of gusty wind. Despite all this
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 164
Mr. Higurashi held out his hands to her, beseeching. “Can I hold him?” Kagome wanted to say ‘no,’ but she couldn’t. Defeated, she held Shin out to him instead. Mr. Higurashi lifted her son easily out of her hands and smiled. Blue-eyed and human once more, Shin smiled back. “Jiijii,” he burbled, and Mr. Higurashi’s
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 163
“Since I left,” Kagome’s father answered, at last. She nodded. “But I never betrayed your mother.” Kagome turned her face away. He stepped toward her. “That was why I left like I did,” he said, his expression torn. “Because when I fell in love with Reiko, there was no turning back. I thought I’d be
Bane of Blood: La Gorgona, Part 36
Alejandra giggled, as if Fernando were joking. “What do you like then? Tell me.” “Order,” he said. “Reason. I like for things to be in their rightful place. For people to behave like rational beings, not dumb blundering animals. When they don’t, it irritates me. It should irritate everyone. But it doesn’t. And that irritates
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 162
The man turned fully toward her, and now Kagome knew for sure. They both did. His cigarette dangled forgotten in his hand. “Kagome,” Mr. Higurashi said, stepping toward her slowly, as if in a dream. As if in a dream, Kagome pushed forward with Shin to meet him, and it was like wading through quicksand.
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 161
With another day left before Inuyasha would be expecting her back home in Edo, Kagome arranged to meet up with her old school friends, Eri and Yuka, who’d been thrilled to hear from her even after years of radio silence. Kagome feared that in her prolonged absence, they’d assumed the worst, but to her vast
The Cove: Part 1 (Teaser)
One of the locals had directed her to the spot—a secluded cove you had to hike through a dense swath of palm scrub to reach. Anika was sweating a little as she crested the last hill and broke past the line of the trees. Her thin tank top clung to her like a second skin.
SessKag Series: The Pact, Part 160
The corner grocery store was a whole new world of wonders to Shin. His eyes went so comically wide at all the lights and colors (and scents and sounds) that his own bright irises practically disappeared into his pupils. Whether he was human or not, this was probably for the best, since his eyes were