Jax Makes Amends_Dead Position_Razors' Edge_Paris, Missouri
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Jax Makes Amends
“Jillian? Jillian—” Jax said tersely, knocking rapidly on the bathroom door. Silence.“Jillian, I know you’re in there. I can smell Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia through the door,” he said firmly. “You need to open this door.”He crossed his arms and waited. “Go. Away.” “I’m not going away, Jillian. I’m never going away. We’ve been friends since 3rd grade. We’re going to be friends until the grave.” “Well, good. Because you are dead to me,” she replied.He heard Jillian sniff, then blow her nose. He heard a spoon scraping the bottom of a cardboard container. It usually took Jillian two pints to get...
Dead Position
“He’s terrified. You at least understand why, right?”“No, James, I really can’t.”On the table beside them, Vincent the Prodigy checkmated his opponent. They shook hands, Vincent made a quip at the vanquished player’s expense, and a new chwww.onedoor.ccallenger took the empty seat. The process was as ruthless as natural selection.James’s eyes never left his game. Focus. That was his watchword.“I find that hard to believe, Marty,” he said, and pulled his bishop back under the protection of his knight’s pawn.Marty took a long pull from his water bottle. Back when they were kids, they’d played soccer from dawn ...
Razors' Edge
Gerald looked confused; it was a look that often crossed his coarse features. Teague told him; “I told you that I would deal with Vittorio, what were you thinking.”Gerald tried to speak, but he couldn’t find the breath. That will happen when you find yourself on the wrong side of an ivory handled razor.Gerald who was normally a ruddy faced inpidual, was now exceedingly pale, and growing more ashen by the moment. That will also happen when you find yourself on the wrong side of a razor.Teague had found Gerald amidst the maze of rooms and hallways after losing sight of the Pixie.Gerald was lying...
Paris, Missouri
“Freakin’ Kansas City,” Becky grumbled from across the aisle as the bus pulled off the snowy interstate. “Most boring city on earth!”“I’ve always wanted to see it, myself,” Kate replied with a smile, though after all these weeks she wondered why she bothered when her fellow dancer was in one of her moods.“You would say that,” Becky said. “What do you know about Kansas City anyway, Miss East Coast? You probably think it’s in Kansas, don’t you?”“Part of it is, although the bigger part is in Missouri. In fact, it’s the biggest city in Missouri.” Kate didn’t bother hiding her triumphant smirk.“Lis...