Heartbeats: Epilogue

If it was the last thing she did before she died, Elizabeth was determined to learn how to make the best damn pecan pie. Ever. It only seemed right considering she was now a pecan farmer... amongst other things. With so many of the nuts at her disposal, it felt unnatural not to be able to put them to use, and, while Jason never ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty-Five

He had been getting his bike serviced when Elizabeth called. At her frantic request, he had left the Harley Davidson dealership immediately. In fact, because his own bike had not been available, Jason was pretty sure he had either distractedly agreed to buy a new motorcycle, or, if that wasn't the case, he had probably committed ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty-Four

Yet again, Patrick Drake made her yearn for Paris. In Paris, she would have known exactly how far she could push her apartment door open without it creaking in protest. She knew which spots of the floor to avoid, that her bathroom was far enough from her cousin's room that Maxie wouldn't wake when Robin was preparing for bed, and ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty-Three

Robin hated things that couldn't be explained by logic. That was probably why she avoided anything and everything supernatural or unknown. She'd never watched a single episode of The X-Files, she wouldn't be able to recall which channel the SYFY network was on if her life depended upon it, and forget about vampires. Medically ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty-Two

Before entering the Zacchara study, Jason hovered just outside on the patio, surreptitiously studying his target. He didn't have to worry about being spotted by a guard, for Johnny had used scheduling confusion to remove all of his father's men without making anything seem too obvious, and Anthony was totally oblivious to his lack ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty-One

Elizabeth had nothing against Doctor Meadows. She was a well educated, well spoken, well groomed woman - a regular pillar of society, and, if their paths ever crossed outside of the hospital, she was sure that she was just as nice as can be, but there was also a secret part of her which wondered if the older woman, underneath her ( Read more... )

Chapter Thirty

If you had enough money, enough connections, and weren't afraid of breaking a few laws, it was easy to find... well, just about anything. If nothing else, Claudia had managed to learn the fine art of persuasion from her father. Though Anthony refused to train her as his rightful heir, there was the one aspect of his wisdom that he had ( Read more... )

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Spinelli's apartment had a style all of its own... at least as far as Maxie was concerned. Never before had she encountered someone who considered wall to wall shelving stuffed with overflowing piles of what she thought to be junk - spare electronics equipment, video games, comic books, and toy action figurines - to be a ( Read more... )

Chapter Twenty-Eight

She needed more funding. That was the harsh, plain truth. Of course, Robin could always go to her wealthy friends - Jax, Sonny, Nikolas, Edward Quartermaine - and start a bidding war between them as they attempted to one up the other. When it came to charity, that was perhaps the only time she appreciated the delicate male ego ( Read more... )

Chapter Twenty-Seven

“Was it really necessary for us to meet all the way out here?” Johnny knew that he was complaining, but, really, he and Jason Morgan were currently standing in the middle of nowhere, and it had been raining more on than off for the past week - heavy, choking summer rains that hinted at relief from the humidity only to end with ( Read more... )