Moins 20. Elle recommença à pleurer. Trois femmes étaientassises, comme dans la salle d'attente d'un médecin. L'adjoint allavers l'une d'elles, un... femme d'une quarantaine d'années. ?De nouveauici ? Ca fait pourtant moins de deux semaines qu'on t'a traitée.On a été trop gentils et tu as recommencé ? Soistranquille, cette fois tu ne risqueras pas d'oublier, on va te soigner toutparticulièrement. La femme éclata en sanglots. Les deux autres,plus jeunes, semblaient plus calmes, mais l'une d'elles. X-x-x-x "I think you should buy dinner," Jake said. "Your team won, after all." "Loser buys," Molly said. "Remember, that was your idea." Just as they had entered the stadium, Jake had proposed a bet with dinner as the prize. "It shouldn’t count," he said with a grin. "I still had hope at that point. The game hadn't started. I was overwhelmed with the possibilities." "Don’t try to wiggle out of this one, Counselor." Molly arched an eyebrow at him. "You won't find a technicality here." . The sound of her heels clicking on the hardwood floors reminds me of when the realtor was walking around in her heels, that pencil skirt. What was her name? She was fun.I break from my thoughts and see that Danielle has made it through to the open plan living room and kitchen and is looking at the sunset that still dominates the dark sky. "Make yourself at home, I'll just open this. Do you want a gin and tonic whilst it breathes?"She doesn't seem to be listening but nods, "Ooh, yes please."Her. Before coming to Earth, I was young, at least in our terms. And there had never been an opportunity or reason at the same time for me to get around to it. I might have gone another 100 of our years -- nearly 130 of theirs -- before I was really ready to mate.But this human body was ready. I could tell. I had felt it pulling me for several months before I understood. At first, I just knew it wanted something. Later, I knew what it wanted. A man.And I found I wanted to give my body a man. Well,.