"You're everything I ever wanted," he says. He leans in and kisses me. At last. I slip my hands away, letting my fingertips brush across his cheek. He takes his final bow over the railing and drops 15 floors toward the Fifth Avenue pavement. Pity.

BookShots
LIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON

• Novels you can devour in a few hours
• Impossible to stop reading
• All original content from James Patterson