"After what happened back there," he paused to use the same thumb motion she had, "I might understand how you feel better than you think. Nothing like...that has ever happened to me. I mean I've never felt like that with any other girl." There are other girls?" Jealousy was so clear in her tone that he was afraid she'd start yelling at him again."I'm a normal guy," he said. "Us humans have boy and girlfriends a little earlier than elves."Are any of them ... special?" If you're asking whether or. ”Divina contemplated his words, weighed the consequence of her defying him, turned, and ran.Killian laughed and yelled, “I love it when they run.” And he took off after her.Divina ran into the woods searching for a place to hide. She saw something that looked like a cave and went in as deep as she could and waited. Killian strolled in his search like he had all the time in the world. When he got to the cave, he looked around and smiled.“Damn, If she’s not here then where would she have. Overtime in my department was down enough to offset some of the funding for the raises. I had not used even half of the emergency operations budget in the last year so some of the dollars in that budget item were negotiable to cover raises.My salary was by contract. I had three more years at the fixed level. I had intended to keep extending the contract as long as they were willing to give the state retirement plan.I was now wondering if that was the smart thing to do. With JBG security growing. Lanny Walsh – I shuddered thinking about him. He had asked me out last week to drive around with some friends of his. He said they might go to the target range and shoot at tin cans. Even now I could see the tall weirdo dressed all in black and wearing that long trenchcoat. What a strange guy. His friends were even worse. They all wore trenchcoats like they were some kind of uniform or something. I wouldn’t go out with Lanny for a million bucks. Not him or any of his other creepy friends. I.