-Caleb-The door banged, shaking on its hinges despite the three deadbolts and the bar fortifying it.I blinked awake at the same time Jacey did, both of us sitting up, naked. “Get in the bathroom,” I said urgently to her. “I’ll handle this.”“What? Caleb, we don’t know who’s out there!” she hissed
“I really do admire your courage,” Hansen said as he got in the driver’s seat. “A lot of people would have given up by now and refused to testify.”“That asshole is going to get his if I have to keep telling the world about his crimes until the day I keel over from Alzheimers,” I gritted out.Jacey
-Jacey-I didn’t know they still had payphones lurking around Minnesota, but, much to my surprise, Hansen stopped the new convoy from the airport to make a quick call at a gas station on one.“I thought maybe you’d do a burner phone spy thing?” I said to Bea as Hansen was checking in.“This is bette
Two agents removed their jackets and put them over our heads, shielding us from view. I concentrated on not tripping over sidewalk cracks, stairs, or carpeting. We went through a revolving door and into the lobby, as far as I could tell from the changes in the flooring, and then were hustled into an
“You know I understand. And I’ll probably have a few of those myself.” Caleb nuzzled my neck. “Let’s have a bath, all right, baby?”I nodded and raised my arms so he could take my shirt off. Pressed to him as I was, I could feel his hardness even through his jeans.The two days we’d gone without sho
-Caleb-Sleeping on the luxury bedding of The Foshay was like sleeping on a cloud. A cloud where I could cuddle with the woman I loved.I watched Jacey dreaming happily on my chest in the early morning light that filtered through the curtains, not moving a muscle. I didn’t want to disturb her. She d
“That we are,” he grumbled back. “On the positive side of things, we won’t be doing this again until the trial date, I hope.”“You intend to parade us out again for the trial? I thought the idea was for us not to get shot so we could testify,” I said.“Politics, kid. You might get it someday. Though
“Good. Then we have an understanding. You can tell your superiors to piss off,” I said, taking Jacey’s hand and holding it on the seat.The car fell into a seething silence. Jacey broke it after a while. “Where are we going?”“It’s best we don’t tell you,” Bea replied. “The less you know, the better
“So, I think you’ve been doing some snooping,” Ike said, leaning in the doorway.My eyes snapped upward, and I was sure I wasn’t hiding the hatred in them very well. “What the hell is all this?”“Your inheritance. You know, this makes it easier. Your grandfather and I were trying to figure out how t
I dropped the headphones and was about to go striding into the office to break up their nefarious little clique when I looked at Dawn’s screen. She’d left it unlocked.There was a folder open I’d never seen on the server before.I glanced over the monitor to make sure Dawn wasn’t on her way back the
-Will-I sat behind my grandfather’s desk, bored again. After private schools, Yale, and Harvard Business School, I was bored out of my mind. I’d followed my expected trajectory. I’d done everything expected of me.Only once did I ever step a toe out of line. Well, almost. I suggested, at one of my
-Jacey-“Mom? Where did Uncle Billy put the Fruity Pebbles?” McKenzie asked.She’d been home from her first year of college a week and had already settled right in like she owned the place. Billy had taken to hiding the Fruity Pebbles they both liked, one, because he thought it was hilarious, and tw
Shower. SHOWER!!! I stopped her jerking me off and helped her into the tub then followed her in and closed the floral curtain.Jacey went immediately for the soap, lathering up her hands and then starting to scrub me.“You’re trying to kill me, aren’t you,” I groaned when she washed my rigid cock.“
I should have been overjoyed. On some level, I was ecstatic. But anger bubbled up in me as well, and I gripped her upper arms and pushed her just far enough away that I could look her in the eyes. “Jacey, you’ve been icing me out for almost a month.”Her eyes welled with tears, but she quickly dashe
-Caleb-A month later, Masterson was in prison, and Jacey and I were back on the farm. She had spoken to me less and less as the weeks passed and was now icing me out altogether. I didn’t blame her. I’d given her false hope.But I’d been so sure Masterson was going to bungle it with Will. A bad nann
“Good luck with that. Look, I really am on your side. This plea bargain is a good thing. Twenty-five years isn’t a short prison sentence, and maybe in that amount of time, he’ll be able to reflect on his actions. Hell, I don’t know, maybe he’ll find Jesus. What I do know is Masterson can provide for
“I hear what you’re saying,” Officer Alexander replied slowly. “And Lord knows I agree with you, but there’s nothing we can do, Jacey. Nothing. Do you understand? I want you to tell me you understand before we go back out there. You can’t make a scene.”My hands balled into fists. “If they don’t wan