We got back to the house and I paced, while Jonathan made his calls. It took some time, since his contact was actually involved in the raid, and couldn’t respond right away.
Eventually, Jonathan’s phone rang, and it took every ounce of my willpower to keep from hovering over his s...
2018-07-23 16:41:24 +0000 UTC View Post
A week passed that was, thankfully uneventful, aside from the girls and I studying, and everyone else beginning the packing process. I wasn’t sure why we were starting this early, considering the house wasn’t even finished yet. Of course, when I voiced my confusion, Mom looked at me wit...
2018-07-23 16:39:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I stood stock still for several beats, staring at the phone in her hands, my brain resisting her words. It couldn’t be ... not again. It was the incident with Judy all over again.
“Cas,” Vicki said, prompting me.
I hesitantly reached forward and took the phone from her. 2018-07-06 19:22:40 +0000 UTC View Post
I was up and off to the office Wednesday before the girls were up, not that there was much for me to do at this point. We’d done several test runs of our presentation, and everything was in Douglas's hands.
“You're here early,” I said when I walked into the cleared area of one o...
2018-06-20 20:43:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Celia hung out for a few more hours, and I found I really did like her, now that she was not working on getting her next fix. I can see the girl that Megan became friends with, and why she stuck her neck out for her. By the time she left to head back to school, I was over my funk about bein...
2018-06-07 18:52:24 +0000 UTC View Post“What are you planning?” Whitaker asked as they got back in the car and headed home.
“That I need to find a way into the investigation.”
“Yeah, I get that,” she said. “How? You know Joe isn’t a fan of yours. Neither are a lot of the other top brass. They don’t like y...
2018-05-30 19:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I wouldn’t be involved in hiring Mrs. Polaski to continue Tina and Judy’s education - aside from the little side note about actually paying for it - they’d agreed to work out the details of how it would all work out, together. That actually was fine by me, since it gave me one l...
2018-05-09 18:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Two days passed with no word from Josh. Amanda and Josh’s parents went to the cops after the ‘waiting’ period to report a missing person, but the cops didn’t seem concerned. Considering Josh’s behavior lately - especially the steroid use - they seemed to not take it very ser...
2018-04-20 04:11:56 +0000 UTC View Post
The week went by, and I kept getting weird vibes off of Josh. Most of the time he seemed genuine, acting like the guy I made friends with the previous year. Every now and then though, that mask would slip, and I’d see a glimpse of something else. Josh had always been fairly blunt and stra...
2018-04-02 21:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
It was pretty late when we all got back to the house. Aside from the drive to get home, we stayed at the Center until it shut down for the night, and I have to say, I was pretty impressed with what they’d accomplished. I didn’t get to talk to the person they’d hired as a jobs co...
2018-03-24 14:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the frustrating realities of life, is that just because you’re resolved to do something, doesn’t mean you can jump right into action
“… and with all of his followers gone, he won’t have the power base to cause any more problems,” I said as I finished explainin...
2018-03-12 15:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post
True to her word, by the time Celia’s grandmother knocked on the front door late that afternoon, I’d stopped thinking about the ledgers Damion had brought, entirely. She’d kept us hustling for nearly four hours, getting the house nearly spotless. I had to admit, I was feeling mu...
2018-02-24 14:54:43 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick update. I know I've been putting up new chapters early in the week, but I made an outline change that basically required rewriting most of the next chapter in No Good Deed, which is putting me behind a bit. You should probably see a chapter this weekend.
Sorry for the dela...
2018-02-14 00:27:04 +0000 UTC View PostSonora Desert, Arizona, Near the Border
A soft breeze swayed the small shrubs that littered the rocky ground, signaling the beginning of the temperature dip that happened most nights. Simon Lawson thought about the rookies he’d talked to over the years, before getting a j...
2018-02-05 17:05:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Emily and I trudged in late Friday evening, after a very long week. Douglas’s presentation had lit a fire under Ted and Marcus; and Aaron Baxter, who’d extended his stay through yesterday. We’d spent the first two days after the presentation getting a first-hand look at both the...
2018-02-05 17:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
It turned out we couldn’t have a company-wide meeting right away. We faced some hurdles when it came to setting it up so everyone in the new facility could participate in the company-wide meeting. Since TV stations did it every day for decades, it didn’t occur to me how difficult it wou...
2018-01-30 14:12:19 +0000 UTC View Post
The new semester did start with surprises, just not the ones I expected. The teachers had stacked us with homework and additional studies over the winter break, although the girls and I sailed through that within the first week of the break. We spent the beginning of the day going ove...
2018-01-23 15:58:45 +0000 UTC View Post“Get the others. I’ll call Jawarski and have her come pick us up. Meet me out front.”
Zoe nodded and disappeared into the crowd to find the rest of our group, while I slipped my cell phone out of my pocket and headed for the front door.
“What happened, now?” was the first thing she...
2018-01-15 17:01:10 +0000 UTC View Post
We got the judge handed off with little problem. For now, at least, it seemed he and his wife would be safe. I promised them we’d do what we could to get the Syndicate out of his life, and mine, as fast as we could.
Any hesitancy he might have had about walking away from his l...
2018-01-08 17:18:34 +0000 UTC View PostDue to the holiday's, it's been longer than I'd like since the last chapter went up. Not to worry, you should see a new chapter of No Good Deed early next week (3 or 4 days from now).
2018-01-06 00:13:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Christmas Eve came around, and the group we’d all started considering part of ‘the family’ were present, plus a good collection of people who were variously attached to people in the know, but weren’t themselves privy to our secret. I’d discussed it with Mom, and she’d agreed to...
2017-12-28 19:46:31 +0000 UTC View PostFor the next week, things were quiet, which I should have known was a sign. If I was honest with myself, I didn’t even consider it for a second. I just relaxed and, for a few days at least, pretended I was a teenager.
Next Step was progressing, and by the end of the week, they’d start...
2017-12-22 15:28:07 +0000 UTC View Post
On the way back home, I worked over something I’d been thinking of for some time, ever since we decided to get information from the judge. My main problem was, I didn’t know exactly how to go about it… or at least, parts of it.
“How would I make an untraceable phone call?” I...
2017-12-20 19:27:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe returned late Saturday night from our outing to Houston. Rachel offered to ride with Jawarski, so I could ride with the girls on the way back. She said she was curious as to what being a cop was like, and wanted to ask Jawarski questions on the way back; but I was pretty sure one of the girls con...
2017-12-18 12:56:31 +0000 UTC View PostAs a note, the chapter of The Sword of Jupiter (Chapter 7) that went up today is the last one you'll see for a bit. I plan on working on No Good Deed exclusively until I finish it, then I'll get back to finishing The Sword of Jupiter. Since this is a new series...
2017-12-17 14:04:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Ky walked into what he was thinking of as the throne room the next morning, refreshed, despite the small amount of sleep he’d gotten the night before. Although he could get along on very little sleep when needed, the doctors had still recommended eight hours of sl...
2017-12-17 14:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Ky helped the Emperor out of the chair with the older man gripping Ky’s forearm even after he was standing. Subtly signaling by pulling or pushing on his arm, he directed Ky out of the building the meeting had been held in and around the periphery of the large ope...
2017-12-16 18:29:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Ky shut the door behind quietly as he left, taking one last look at Lucilla sitting on a small stool next to her father’s bed, looking equally hopeful and worried as he continued to lie, unmoving. As the door shut and blocked the two figures from sight, he turned to find Clov...
2017-12-16 18:28:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Carthaginian Army
Zaracas rode wearily, surrounded by officers and courtiers, near the head of the army. He was trying to keep from sliding out of his saddle. Normally, he traveled by litter, which was much more comfortable and appropriate for someone of ...
2017-12-16 18:27:13 +0000 UTC View Post
“I’m sorry, Lord, but I don’t understand. How could you not know about the Carthaginians?” the woman said as the small group rode northward across what the AI had confidently confirmed was the British countryside.
“Why do you keep calling me Lord?”
“Be...
2017-12-16 18:26:16 +0000 UTC View Post