Redefining Protocol: Chapter 16

A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶The week before publication “One million,” Charlotte said, her voice crackling through Ellie’s ancient iPhone speaker. “Plus royalties.” Ellie nearly choked on her Tesco Meal Deal sandwich, a sad triangle of egg and cress that suddenly tasted like victory. She glanced around the cramped university library carrel where she’d been attempting to salvage her PhD…

A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Strangers bursting into tears upon meeting him had stopped surprising Thomas roughly sixteen years back, right about when he’d grown immune to camera flashes. There was simply a very specific type of person who broke down in tears when confronted with a member of the royal family. As if they’d cracked open some deeply buried…

A-A+B☼☽☾↔⛶Learn how to use my browser based e-reader here. Redefining Protocol is a story about a man choosing to live for himself after a lifetime of living for others. It’s also about a man finding love twice — once under difficult circumstances that grew into something real, and once on his own terms. Content-wise, this…