By the time he reached Jolene's crash site, Jed already had her wings bundled up and tied neatly behind her."Almost done," Jed said, grinning and look...ng up as his brother trotted up, breathless from his short run. "About the size of a small deer, wouldn't you say?" A bit puny for my taste," Russell replied, grinning back. "But I reckon she'll cook up okay." Russell helped Jed pick the little vampire up and heave her over Jed's shoulders."We can have some fun with her before we cook 'er, ya. There was no time. Real life sucks sometimes; she frowned, taking another drink of punch."Why the frown, Stephy?" Cassie asked, slipping beside her."I'm missing a fantasy date for this," Stephanie griped, waving her hand around the room. A dozen groups stood talking around the room. A couple was waltzing in the center of the room. Another group of ten stood around the punch bowl."I'm surprised that Darren didn't figure a way to combine them," Cassie said, guiding Stephanie toward the bathrooms.. ”“I wasn’t sure what to wear tonight, so I thought I’dwait and hear your suggestions.”“After dinner we will go to your apartment and selectsomething for you to wear when we go to the storelater.”I could only imagine what she had in mind as we had anice dinner with a couple of glasses of wine. Thealcohol haze descended on my brain. I wasn’tdysfunctional, but it was enough to make me not care somuch about exposing myself in public again.We ate. There was a knock on the door a few minutes later.Assuming it was FedEx or UPS, I almost ran to the bedroom to get dressed—I was wearing only panties and one of Terrance’s old T-shirts. But then there was another knock. I didn’t want to miss the package, so I murmured “fuck it” and went to the door. The shirt didn’t quite come low enough to be modest, but I would only be there for a few seconds. If it made the delivery guy’s dick hard, fine.I ran to the door and opened it quickly. I was stunned.