“Serena”, and she flashed that smile again. Wow, she really was beautiful. Pulling the fur coat over her knees, she started to tell me what had ha...pened. It turned out she had walked out on her husband after she caught him in bed with his PA. She had come over on a surprise flight, got changed in the cab to his lodgings and found them together….”so I turned right around, told him to go fuck himself and, well here I am.”By then I’d took the last turn and the car lit up the log cabin where I was. He looked at them, moved them around and seemed satisfied. He turned around, excited. “Growing pains. That was the clue.”Mary, “It was so simple, really.”Steve, “Can’t imagine why we didn’t think of it before.”My head was going back and forth between them and I was trying to imagine a long conversation like this. Jenna inserted herself. “Okay …” she looked at them and they seemed chastened. “We’ve talked about this …” She turned to me, shaking her head but smiling. “What we’re so excited about,. He desperately needed to get back to the Senate and try and stop the coming war. On reflection, he decided there was nothing he could do until the plane landed and he'd met with the infamous Dr Bexley in New York. The Senator fiddled with his seat position and tried to get some sleep.- o - o - o -Matthew was about to go into the finer details of the Guild's civil war when there was a sharp staccato knock at the door. "Yeah," Jill called out.Shane's voice was muffled thru the solid door "You. ‘It’s nothing bad,’ she hastened to reassure him. ‘At least I hope it’s not a bad thing. I’m not dying or anything like that.’ She saw him relax slightly, but his face still showed his dark emotions. ‘You see there was a side effect from my injuries,’ she paused and watched his face. ‘I’m fine,’ she reassured him again. ‘What side effects?’ Josh asked, the sick feeling in his stomach returning as she spoke slowly. ‘Well, I have this little rod in my arm here,’ she pointed to the inside of her.