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CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.8

Thursday, June 22nd

“Wow, hi, Nia!” Miss Jessop said, “I haven’t seen you in so long.”

“I’m back working now,” she said.

“I know, Geoff told me. Must be exciting.”

Nia stood and talked with Odie’s teacher, holding Odie’s hand while they caught up. It was the last week of school and she asked Miss Jessop about her summer plans and they talked about how work was going for Nia. Rocco was away this morning doing something personal with his family an...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.7

Geoff saw Rocco for the first time coming out of the can with Nia and walking down the narrow hall back to the bar. Rocco was standing out in the main area and Geoff could see him toe to top. He was standing next to his brother Dino, and Geoff knew how tall Dino was. Rocco dwarfed Dino. He was handsome, too. In a big guy kind of way. He had a thick neck and traps and shoulders. He was enormous, like a pro wrestler, and looked like a villain with all the tattoos and the black hair and black ey...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.6

“Hii-ii, Geoff,” Angie said and put her hand on his upper arm, smoothing it against his sweater like she had bad news. The other one looked back behind her and Ang, and Geoff saw a hallway there that led to the bathrooms.

“Hey, Ang,” he said, “where’s Nia?”

“Oh, she’s here somewhere,” Angie said.

“Is she down there?” he said, pointing towards the hall.

“No, no, I don’t—hey, my boy loves your new book, you know? He—”

“Thanks, An...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.5

Friday, June 9th

It was a long drive up to Innisfil and by the time he got on the 400, it was dark. Nia had called two hours ago from Rocco’s truck. They’d been at a work site in Schomberg, some mansion she’d told him, and they were there late and it was a Friday and a bunch of their friends from Woodbridge were camping up in Innisfil, which wasn’t far. They wanted to do a night out at a bar up there.

Nia knew Geoff’s mom was staying overnight with them in Roncesvalles. ...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.4

Geoff was back there, rubbing her feet. She was face down, knees bent, feet in his strong oily hands. Head pressed to the pillow, she watched out the window at the night sky, thinking about the things her husband was suggesting.

It was exciting. But it was a lot. It was fun to joke, but she’d known this dude for so long. Knew Geoff was ramping up, building to something.

This aroused him. His words suggested it, but even more: his accidental (yet oh so purposeful) bumping of his ...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 10

For lunch she ordered an Energy Unagi roll and a seaweed salad from Hashi Izakaya. Crispy shrimp, crabmeat, and cream cheese, topped with barbecued eel, only half eaten, the remains stacked in black plastic trays on Devlin’s coffee table. It was 12:45 now. Devlin told her they’d meet at his place for lunch.

She wouldn’t text him. Wouldn’t give him the satisfaction. Devlin wanted to play games with her, but he didn’t know who he was playing with.

On his leather couch, sho...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.3

Nia was a little too tired for a real fat girl night, the binge watching part, but they tried it anyway. He let her know of the name change—that Fat Girl Night would be now called Sugar Poops Night, according to Odele. Nia laughed. She ate two brownies after her dinner, she’d worked up a real appetite today.

He sat on the couch with her, but she couldn’t stay awake and he said she should go to bed. That was what he wanted, too. He told her he’d run her a bath and rub her back, a...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.2

It was almost twenty degrees out, but it felt colder than that. The sun was out, though, and that was all that mattered. Geoff went out for a walk at two-forty-five, down Garden Street, out to Queen and along to the grocery. Now he was on Elmwood at Green Leaf, picking out some things to cook Nia and Odele for dinner tonight.

He was still jamming on that crazy thrill, thinking of his beautiful wife out on her own, talking to other men, maybe flirting . . . knowing, for sure, th...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Bachelorette // 2.1

Geoff snuck out of bed while Nia was splashing in the shower and got down to the kitchen, excited to cook her bacon and eggs. It was four fucking forty-five in the morning, and while he dreamed of doing this every morning, man, he liked to sleep.

It was Nia’s first day of work at the pool company. Start time was 7 A.M., and Nia wanted to be there at six-thirty, so she set the alarm for a quarter after four. Why did she want to go back to work again?

He fried up some bacon and sc...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 9b

Devlin said, “Shoot— Ask me and I’ll tell you, Josh.”

“What happened at Tiffany’s cottage?”

“What about it?”

Josh repeated: “What happened at Tiffany’s cottage?”

“Kimmy told you.”

“Not between you and Kimmy. Kimmy told me about that. What happened between you and me?”

Devlin leaned back, eyebrow arched like it amused him. “This is what it comes down to? This thing you keep saying to me and I don’t know what it is? It’s ...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revised // Cherry Blossoms // 1.8

The meeting with Jenny went well, like he thought it would. He had a grasp on the trains they wanted and the success of the first book made them pander to him this time around, which he was unaccustomed to, but he was liking. She loved what he had so far, of course. It was more of the same, just some funnier situations, and he was on track. Sort of a waste of a half-day, but Jenny had to justify her job, and he didn’t mind since they were paying so well this time around. Jenny had to come u...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revised // Cherry Blossoms // 1.7

Geoff asked her, “What was Rocco like?”

“He was chubby. Chunky.”

“He wasn’t a stud muffin like your Dino?”

“Ha. No, he was . . . he’s more like their dad. He was big and blocky.” She turned to face him, made eye contact, said, “He was good-looking though,” then bounced her eyebrows in a cartoonish way, like she was an accomplished seductress.

He laughed. “Should I be worried?” he asked her.

Her eyes were back on the road. She said, “...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revised // Cherry Blossoms // 1.6

Angie’s aunt Stella laughed so hard she almost spilled her wine. When she got it together, she said, “I don’t care what you do, but you better not tell the boys!”

Angie’s cousin, Gracie, said, “Ma, stop it. It’s not a thing. Don’t worry about it.”

“This is our private party, we’ll do whatever we want,” Angie said, then, when it got quiet, “but no harm keeping it from the boys.”

That got a big laugh. They were at Giuseppe’s in Vaughan, Stella’s...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 9

Tuesday morning, before lunch, Josh got an unexpected call to his personal phone.

When the name Devlin Stone displayed on the screen of his iPhone, Josh chilled. The name carried so much existential dread. Though that was attenuating, wasn’t it? Kimmy led him away from Devlin’s power. It was all in his head, and Kimmy helped show him that. But old habits die hard, and when you see an incoming phone call from the dude who made your youth miserable, you couldn’t help your throat con...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revised // Cherry Blossoms // 1.5

When he got back down, he found Nia sitting with her long legs up on the couch, using the remote to scroll through Netflix. He slipped into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee. He was going to be up late tonight, catching up on drawing some trains.

“Here, babe,” he said, bringing the popcorn into the family room to the couch where Nia sat.

She leaned forward to let him slip in behind her, and he stuck a leg next to her along the back of the couch. She eased back on ...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Cherry Blossoms // 1.4

Nia made French toast and bacon, and Geoff brought the girls’ bikes out of storage. He’d put them in the crawlspace to keep them out of the way over the winter. He had the padlocked door open now, standing outside in the alleyway checking headsets, bolt tightness, pumping up tires. It was an amazing spring day today. He was glad he’d surrendered to his wife and given up work for the day. He felt like there was something fresh and new and arousing in his marriage. In his relationship wit...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Cherry Blossoms // 1.3

The headache was intense. Not electric and sharp and stinging, but slow and steady, an omnipresent thud that beat rubber hammers against the back of her eyes with her pulse.

But she was in his arms and that made up for everything. What in the world had she said last night? She remembered some of it. It was a little foggy, a bit like a dream, but it was real. All those things happened. She’d said something horrible. Admitted something that had weighed on her more than she realized. Geo...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Cherry Blossoms // 1.2

Nia released his balls, and he heaved breath into her hair, made it rustle and waft with sweet tropical coconut and papaya. With a quick circular swipe of her wrist, Nia’s hand dove inside his sweats. She stroked the underside of his cock with her palm. He groaned into her ear.

“Geoff, you are so fucking hard right now.”

He moaned and stroked over her panties. Nia was eager, pushing herself against his touch. The warm dampness soaked through the fabric. He shuddered and spew...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 8

Now she had something to work with.

It was hard to believe how it had all progressed. Hard to imagine that what Devlin said about Josh could be true. And Josh’s truth was a path to her own salvation.

His cock throbbed in her hand, stiff and hot as a curling iron. She worked her grip up and down in slow drags, watching her husband sink into the bed, face showing heavenly bliss in combat with angst. The path was like a long stretch of traffic and all ahead were green lights. It se...

SUMMER SWAP // Part 2 // Chapter 3

Philippe mounted the steps ahead of him, beer in one hand, the other holding an apple with a bite out of it. They emerged into the hot and bright, the boat’s rooftop awning retracted to give them all maximum sunlight. Along the curved bank of seating at the rear, Sullivan sat with his wife Scarlet, the two of them close, Scarlet holding a pillow to her stomach and watching the waves while Sullivan flicked through his phone. Cody sat on an upright chair, long blond hair tied up in a man-bun,...

CHERRY BLOSSOMS // Revisited // Cherry Blossoms // 1.1

Friday, May 12

Geoff J. Kane was on a deadline, but tonight he was silkscreening. In three weeks he had to turn in fourteen large scale drawings of happy trains for his editor. The Big Book of Choo. A three-to-six-year-old readers’ favorite, and award winner, the bestselling Choo original had spawned this sequel. The first book, The Little Book of Choo, was in its eighth printing. The publishers had to shake their wallets out to get him to draw that many trains again. On top of the tr...

SUMMER SWAP // Part 2 // Chapter 2

Philippe smiled the way someone does when they want to disarm you. Either placating or guilty, Byron couldn’t tell. Maybe it was both. Philippe said, “Hey, Byron,” calm and collected.

“Hey,” Byron answered, scowling and unable to hide the terrible thoughts crossing his mind.

Cheyenne gave him an easy, indolent expression, eyes soft, brows high. She’d folded her arms. She said, “I’m coming up in a second.”

“Yeah, okay, but I came to get changed. You think ...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 7

Kimmy considered something, a sly look on her face, eyes off to the side. She regarded him. “What would that look like?”

“What would what look like?”

“If we were going to be kinky.”

He corrected her. “Kinkier.”

They both laughed, squinting and cocking their heads like they were sizing up one another.

“Okay, kinkier,” Kimmy agreed. “What would it look like?”

“What does it look like to you? You’re the one saying w...

Devil in the Waters, Book 8, Chapter 6

Josh relaxed, sinking into the bed and focusing on what she did. Kimmy took her time, soft and slow, and so loving. So caring. It went on until he thought he couldn’t take it, and a worry began. If he came in her mouth would she be disappointed? She would have to wait for him to get hard again, and if she was horny then she needed something. He had to warn her.

“Kimmy . . . I need you.”

She liked that, her mouth drawing up the length of his cock, backhand...

Devil In The Waters, Book 8, Chapter 5

In the Sunday morning sunlight, she woke up horny. Josh still lay asleep in bed next to her.

It had been a full week without sex. No sex at all. The first Monday back, she’d expected to meet Devlin at his apartment near the office, like they’d arranged. When Devlin didn’t show up to work at all, it was easy enough to shuffle thoughts of sex to the back of her mind. If Devlin was trying to control her by making her wait—hoping to build a desire in her, or perhaps to make her feel...

SUMMER SWAP // Part 2 // Chapter 1

In the morning light the dirty talk seemed strange and otherworldly. Like it hadn’t been him who’d uttered those terrible words. Like it hadn’t been Cheyenne who’d responded to them.

They both lay in bed, side-by-side, both naked and wound in a tangle of their bedsheets. Cheyenne’s naked hip pressed against his naked hip. He groaned, stretched, turned toward her but wouldn’t meet her eyes. In his periphery he saw that she was awake, but instead he looked out at the view.

SUMMER SWAP // Part 1 // Chapter 3

They descended the ladder, Cheyenne going first, then they entered the main cabin, walked down three bedrooms, passing the bathroom where he’d been with Carla, and into their small bedroom suite. The king size bed took up most of their space. Bump-out closet, a mirror, a small built-in dresser. The bed itself was raised up about 3 feet off the ground. You had to climb up and onto it and it butted right up against the window. When you were sleeping it looked like you were adrift on a raft in...

SUMMER SWAP // Part 1 // Chapter 2

When they returned to the top deck, their friends were waiting for the result. It was Carla up ahead of him, hopping up on the deck and waiting for him to join her.

Scarlet said, “Well?”

“Drumroll please,” Carla said, and Arlo abided her, drumming his fingers on the table top. There were less people on the top deck then there should be. Byron scanned, looking to see who was missing. Cheyenne wasn’t here. Was there someone else not here? He said, “Where’s Cheyenne?”...

SUMMER SWAP // Part 1 // Chapter 1

Nine people, forty minutes past midnight, in a houseboat on bobbing black water in the middle of Lake Charlotte. Four married couples, making eight people, plus one man newly divorced, a total of nine, all sitting around a card table on the yacht’s top deck, protected by the overhead canopy strung with fairy lights. Music they listened to in college beat from the houseboat’s integrate...

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Very sorry I've been absent. You can imagine it must be serious for me to do this. It's something I'd rather not discuss and just let some time go by so I can deal with it.

I've paused the June billing cycle so you will not be charged. I'll do the same for July to make up for this missed month of May. I will be back in July.

I really do appreciate you all very much, and I hope you know that. I've read all the messages of support and they mean so much.