This six is from a new project. I’m giving it until the 10k mark to convince me I should finish writing it. 😉

His eyes narrowed with thinly veiled promise. Perfect.

I looped the thread behind his head, jerking down hard enough his chin caught my shoulder. While he was stunned, I twisted to his side, away from his sword, until I stood at his back and my makeshift garrote sliced his throat. My knee at his lower back gave me leverage. Using my weight, I pulled until he gurgled wetly and my thread flossed between his vertebrae.

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Today is a big day for me (and hubby). It’s our twelve year wedding anniversary. It’s unreal we’ve been married for so long. I mean, that sounds like a long time. It just doesn’t feel that way. So, Happy Anniversary to my sweetie! Here’s to the next twelve years, and then another and another, as we work our way through that forever he promised me. 😉

“Since when do you knock?” she called, claiming a seat on the edge of her desk.

“Since Marlin offered me a tire iron for protection when I asked where you were.”

“Oh, please.” She rolled her eyes. “Every bad word in my vocabulary fell from that man’s lips.”

Ellis chuckled.

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