Barbra Annino

Darkness is drowned by three lights; nature, knowledge, and truth.

I realized that with Chance and me, there were no secrets. Or at least none that I could otherwise explain.I said, "I trust you more than I trust my own family, you know that?""Well, they don't set the bar real high." He smiled at me, a silly, playful smile. The kind of smile shared by people with a lot of history.

You're the most important person in my life," I whispered. "You're the only man I ever let in.""But I'm not in, Stace. I'm standing on the porch in the pouring rain, waiting for you to open the door. I've been waiting ever since you left after graduation, ever since you came back last year. Even now, you've let me into your bed, but not into your heart. I'm still waiting.

It's my job to worry about you. I'm in love with you, Stacy. I have been ever since I can remember. It's always been you.

I drank in the scene around me. Some people were directing traffic, some were throwing buckets full of water on the flames (the whole bucket too, not just the contents), some were snapping photos and one guy, I recognized as a regular of the Black Opal, Scully, was clutching a stool and crying.It was like the bleacher seats at a Cubs game when the beer gets cut off...

And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.

But I__ not one to read a book backwards.