Author: tuantr

Daniel folded his arms. “That does not answer the question.” “I know.” “Are you hurt?” “No.” His eyes moved to the torn sleeve and the…

PART 1 By the time Theodore Colton met Hazel Hernandez, he had tested twenty-five women. Twenty-five first dates in eighteen months. Twenty-five carefully staged situations…

PART 1 The first time I saw Victoria Hartwell, she was standing in the rain beside a black SUV that probably cost more than my…

The first thing I noticed was the smell of coffee. Not the sterile, predictable scent produced by my automated espresso machine during its six-thirty cleaning…

PART 1 “I hope that message was not a mistake,” Samantha said. She stood on my front porch holding up her phone so I could…

PART 1 The first time I called Maya Delgado my girlfriend, it was a lie told at my parents’ dinner table. At least, I thought…

Dean Kesler left the maintenance meeting at exactly 9:14 on a cold Tuesday night, carrying a rolled set of blueprints beneath one arm and his…

PART 1 The word escaped before Callum Voss had any chance of stopping it. One second, he was standing inside Sterling Meridian’s sunlit executive conference…

PART 1 I was standing in line at the campus café, trying to stay warm because the heater had stopped working again, when Mia walked…