“You know what, Jerry, you can go fuck yourself!” The words echoed in a loop in his mind. Over and over again. The image of her angry but perfect face throwing the bouquet back at him as she walked away from him into the street. Then, the sudden spike of adrenaline when she got hit by the car - like something out of a movie. He sat in the break room nervously, click-click clicking his pen and jittering his leg. Sweat was...

James Hayley stood at the window, watching the rain make patterns on it. His wife’s car was leaving the driveway, turning into the road. She was on her way to a two-day out-of-state business meeting. James knew better, she was going to meet her lover, probably at a hotel less than fifty miles away. This was the second time in two and a half years that she had been unfaithful. The previous time, she begged for a second cha...

Sean Morris loaded the last cake in his SUV. He had it fitted with special racks so he could deliver Harper’s cakes to four coffee shops on his way to work. He closed the hatch and looked at his scarred face reflected in the window. It had been six months since he escaped after seven weeks of hell. His body was mutilated, as was his face. Sean looked to the house, where his anchor, Harper was probably loading the oven aga...

You're probably wondering where we went from here. I did. Eva was amazing; super sexy, smart, and I wanted her. The endless encounters we had merged together into what would turn out to be the most intense period of my life. Stories of her huge capacity to both give and receive sexual pleasure would fill a volume of it's own. I could tell you about her impending wedding - how I was installed as the best man and belittled...

It was a lazy Saturday morning a few weeks later. We'd seen a lot of each other in the intervening period, and I regularly stayed over in their gorgeous flat, enjoying the place Ian had once occupied in Eva's bed. "And then, Gabby said..." Eva paused, she was laughing so hard, she couldn't speak. "Gabby said, 'I think Ian's having an affair!'" "All because Dan had said he'd been acting funny at work?" I asked. "Yes!" She...

While I had become more accustomed to my situation with the delicious Eva, I still didn't really know why or how I was in this position. And my understanding of Ian's was non-existent. Whatever childhood trauma or Freudian shit he was subject to remained completely opaque to me. He was no more a man in my mind than my favourite shoes were. That changed at our next meeting. It was like Eva turned on a light and I could see...

At first, I had no conception that humiliation could be sexy. It simply hadn't occurred to me that being taken for a mug or intimidated might be a turn-on. But that changed on my next meeting with Eva. I'm pretty open-minded, and in hindsight, I'm surprised that I hadn't thought that someone would get off on it. I'd had lovers who, for want of a better phrase, did get off on being treated badly in the bedroom, or at least...

From the outside, I look like a bull. I'm good-looking, fit, guns like tree trunks, I dress well, I wear a sports watch and look after myself. I talk confidently and with authority, I interrupt people in mid-sentence, and if I take a woman out, the staff at the restaurant, club, or event know I'll turn up with another one next time. I'm the kind of guy some people would call arrogant or an arsehole. But they're just jealo...

Her name was Ophelia, so of course, she was doomed to become arrogant and obnoxious from the start.  To be honest, I should have seen a lot of the signs from the beginning. Like with most people that I found interesting, I made sure to make good use of my discipline and refrain from giving myself any kind of “unfair advantage.” I found her cool. She was outspoken, unafraid to be herself, and unapologetically defensive of...

Happy to be returning home early from work, Claire wondered if her son had looked up possible residence options for their upcoming vacation, like she had told him to. Ryan’s father had never really been involved in their lives and Amy had taken it upon herself to train her son early in exercising grown up responsibilities. She had brought him up for all of seventeen years with equal parts affection and strictness. Thankfu...