I bit my lip lightly, still looking at him suspiciously. I'm sure he was up to something... Was he really going to give me the money, or was he just making fun of me? So I sighed and picked up the bag. “Okay, but if you don't give me that money, I swear I'll kick your balls,” I threatened him and w
LauraJason was impossible; no matter how much you tried to understand him, he managed to frustrate your expectations in two ways. He had just left with Annie, leaving me embarrassed in front of Terrence. I got up with a sigh and went to take my hands to the nearby toilet, where I also put the rest
It had been so long ago that it was as if I was no longer the one who had lived through that episode, although the memories were still intact within me. So many things had happened in that middle ground, and I had grown so much. Now I realized the wrong and right things I had done in my life, and al
LauraIt was a dark street at the bottom of Bad Stuy; there was little movement of people coming and going—just ordinary people going about their ordinary lives without posing serious danger. I was still inside the car, parked right outside a diner that looked like one of the hundreds it had scatter
LauraLewis' lair really looked like a criminal place that even involved the mafia. I dare say that illegal drugs were being packaged and a lot of cash was being counted and stored in suitcases, which were clearly going to be used for some type of clandestine exchange. The grim-faced guys who were w
LauraAt that moment, when one of the walls exploded, everyone in that room was violently knocked off their feet. I was static for a moment. Had I died? I came to think about it. Or had I lost a member of my body? What had happened? Was it the police who had blown up the wall? They had no other way
Laura “Now it’s your turn, woman. Give me your hand,” Jason said, extending his hand towards me to take me out of the dangerous bunker where a shootout was taking place against the police and the gangsters who had threatened to kill my sister and her friend. He had a line of tension between his e
TerenceI watched Laura leave the hospital along with Jason and his daughter. The woman's shoulders were tense because of so much concern she had about her sister, but it was understandable; today was not a good day for her because of everything she was going through. The day was definitely not goin