Your lack of alertness as the Guard of this realm has disgraced me as your Captain and put to shame the Royal Standard on your shoulder. In two weeks ...f you have proven that you are fit to serve with the guard, you may return to this post. Until then your sword will remain here as a mark of your shame. Clear?’ ‘Yes Sir!’ he replied, disgraced. I nodded and placed my sword back in my sheath. Turning to walk away, I had not gotten far before I heard someone running after me. I quickly pulled out. Where you couldn't turn back the hands of time, and change what had happened.I think that was the hardest part. Knowing that we could never wake her back up, and that she would never be with us again. The five of us would never crowd into one queen size bed again, all talking and laughing about something one of the guys said that was cute. We would never have five hands in the center of the circle to start the fun.She was gone.The priest was talking, but I wasn't listening. The nine of us all. ‘It’s time for your meeting with Pierre. Just be true to yourself and go with what feels right. Trust your instincts and see where it takes you. What can go wrong?’ *** Sandra Wilson threw the buff coloured file down on her desk and tossed her small, rectangular, black-framed glasses on top of it. How could she concentrate? The Appleby case was going nowhere. Turner was applying more and more pressure. And then there was Alex Goodwin… She’d tried to avoid spent the barrel chested cop most of. He stopped at the hood of the car, and turned to look at me. He had caught me staring at him, I didn't know what to do. A thousand thoughts were racing through my head. “What was that back there?”, he asked, waving his arm in the direction of the trail. “Dylan...let me explain....I don't know what it was but I do know that I'm attracted to you, always have been. That's our thing, we flirt, and...I'm sorry I let it go so far today, I don't know what I was thinking. I just want you.”, I.