Novels by stephinieezekiel050

"Do you have an appointment?" It's the receptionist from last time, she's arching one perfectly lined brow in question.I swear I can hear my heart pounding in my chest.This was a bad idea...The last time I'd been here with Alec I hand't really paid her much attention. it was a breeze in breeze out thing.Now I'm forced to stand under her professional, but scrutinizing stare."No I don't, but if you can just call him and tell him it's Yasmine-""Mr Ashgroove asked not to be disturbed as he's about to head out. I can't interrupt him. But I could get his secretary on the line,If you could just take a seat." She gestures to one of the steele benches in the waiting area.It hadn't been here the last time I came.I tell her thank you and do as she says. This was a terrible idea. I should have just gone home.I start mentally berating myself, I don't hear Alec the first time he says hello until he taps me slightly on the shoulder."Good afternoon Ms-.""Alec!" I say as I get to my feet, I

Daniel Alberto, light skin Danny, with curly hair and light brown eyes. He was the only other kid of color in my class, his family had owned one of the biggest food chains in Cuba, before they sold the business and moved to the USA when he was just a baby. They'd been trying to escape from the cartel his grandfather did business with and owed a lot of money to.He'd tell me all this on the third day of rehearsal for our school play, as he handed me a chocolate bar from his backpack."We live pretty close by, you know." He had said.And boy did I know. Unbeknownst to him, I knew things about him that were not normal to know about a complete stranger. I knew his father played golf in thesame country club my father used to go to. I knew he was an only child, I knew his favorite color was blue, I knew he was good at English but sucked at maths. I also knew that someday he was going to be mine.I was obsessed with Daniel Alberto looking back now after all this years I set myself up for fa

Aurora's emergency is in the executive suite of a five star hotel, all the way in Austin. When she'd given me her location, without any further explanation on what kind of trouble she was in, she'd done everything in her power to evade answering any of my questions.When I'd first checked in with the receptionist at the front desk, her reassuring nature and smile as she phoned the room for confirmation, before directing me inside was my first clue that this wasn't anything serious.My second clue was Auroras personal assistant Kendra, engaged in conversation with someone outside the suite door. If really this was anything serious, Aurora would never have Kendra with her.Because news would quickly get to her father through Kendra.Kendra spotted me, and with a smile on her plump face she waves at me. "Yasmine, good to see you.""Thank you." I say, looking over at the woman she was with. "Is Aurora ok?""Oh yes she's fine, you just missed lunch. It was some delicious shrimps."Lunch?

I heard him say the words, saw them fall out of his lips but I just can't seem to register them. "My jet crashed...""Yasmine?"I snap out of my train of thought. "Oh my God, how did it happen?."He sighs. "Investigations are still ongoing, but we suspect fowl play. It happened on my way there, some things over at the company in Colombia were already sketchy. Sales not being accounted for properly, dealings with some interesting people. My father asked me to look into it personally so I had to go, and then..."He closes his eyes shut and draws a long breath. I can tell thinking about it is hurting him."I'm so sorry that happened to you." I say reaching for his hands.In a very fluid motion, without opening his eyes he reaches for me and wraps me in his arms. My head on his chest so I feel it vibrating when he starts speaking. "After the crash, when I came to in the hospital. I thought about you." He pauses. "The idea that I might never see you again it almost killed me. Yasmine I

"I fucking hate men!" Libby tells us for the tenth time tonight as we peer down from the balcony of Melany's luxurious duplex.She takes another swig from her Budweiser and grimaces, just as Hannah snatches the bottle from her hands."Hey-" she protests drunkenly."That's enough for tonight, don't want you jumping off this balcony." Hannah says.Libby runs her hand through her already disheveled looking wig, I can't help but notice how disoriented she looks.Love will do that to you, especially the kind of love she has with Devon."That fucking asshole," she cries. "Who the fuck lies about their sick grand mother just so they can go get some ass. Why couldn't I just have been gay"Aria, Hannah's of and on girlfriend, nearly spits her drink out as she starts laughing."If you think dating men is hard try dating a woman." She says."Trust me Aria nothing is worse than dating men." I tell her.If reincarnation is real I must have done something absolutely terrible in my last life because

The first time I hallucinated was in the 11th grade, I was sick and at home while my mother and sister -lilly- had gone to los Angeles for a cereal commercial lilly was staring in. Mom had stopped taking me along anytime she'd travelled once I turned 15. It never felt like she'd ever wanted to in the first place. Lilly was the star of the family, while I was the awkward elder sister always hovering over her shine. " Hovering over her shine" was a sentiment my mother reiterated.So once I'd gotten old enough for my mother to not get judged too harshly for leaving me behind, she'd stopped taking me.So there I was, home alone: Burning up with a re-occuring fever. And the only super vision I got was a nurse that stopped by twice in the day, and my grandmother who made sure to call me every chance she could, grandma was sick herself so she couldn't really travel all the way from Texas to see me- I was laying in bed when I'd heard it. A distance sound from my window. It sounded like foot