by ingloriousgigi | Jun 22, 2026 | Some Assembly Required, Stories
By the time James Bond escaped the MI6 infirmary, Tristan had already invented twelve new forms of murder in his head, eight of which involved hospital bed restraints, three of which involved paperwork, and one of which involved M being forced to explain to Kendis...
by ingloriousgigi | Jun 22, 2026 | Some Assembly Required, Stories
Tristan Evans-Mensah had always believed that panic was a failure of preparation. In his opinion, fear was natural, fear was data, and in this business if you didn’t act because you were fearless. You moved inspite of that fear. Panic, however, was what happened...
by ingloriousgigi | Jun 17, 2026 | Some Assembly Required, Stories
Kendis had known the moment Draco Malfoy apparated on her doorstep that trouble wasn’t far behind. There was an ugly look on his face that usually meant she had pissed him off, which Kendis was uniquely talented at doing, or that a nasty legal problem had...
by ingloriousgigi | Jun 15, 2026 | Stories, The Perilous Husband
Tony felt all the weight of his responsibilities melt away when he parked his orange Saleen S7 next to Kendis’s huge black truck. He shook his head at the mental image of all five feet eight inches of his spouse driving around in a truck that looked like it could...
by ingloriousgigi | Jun 15, 2026 | Stories, The Perilous Husband
“I think the hardest thing I have to accept is that I’m not the same person I was. I look back at the person I was before, and I don’t even recognize them.” Kendis shrugged. “Everyone back home expects me to be the boy who lived, and I don’t know how to tell them that...