He’s all smiles and flattery and easy manners showing off supposed honesty like neon lights. A politician. Charming enough but a politician nonetheless and what goes on under his liberally offered toothy grins is anyone’s guess.

She’s got bones of iron, ice water running through her veins and not much else. Professionalism at its scariest. She ( Read more... )

The mind is a curious thing.

It can save your life but just as well condemn you to death. It can be pushed to limits unimaginable but then fails to alert you of your mother-in-law’s birthday. It shuts down completely out of self-defence and yet it can remind you at the oddest of times how much you miss plums. It makes you crave the comforting ( Read more... )

Adam calls. Exhausted, hurt, triumphant, just as expected. You think you can almost hear him bleed all over the phone and find yourself whishing Ruth was still here to tell him to go to bed. You have learned to measure his need for rest by how well he can hide the barren anger circling around each syllable and it’s obvious that right now he ( Read more... )