Thanks again for letting me stay over, I reallyappreciate it.’‘You're welcome, mate.’Carl's headache eased off with the painkillers, but as he s...t theredrinking his coffee, he couldn't stop himself stealing looks at Danny.Every time Danny looked up, Carl could see those same clear blue eyesthat had appeared in his dream. Carl uttered a little moan as he triedto force himself not to look.‘Carl, you OK? not feeling so good?’ Danny asked. He kept catching Carlstealing little glances at him. Was he. After writing it down and repeating it back to them, I called it in, and they said it would take twenty to thirty minutes. That gave us all a chance to change into sleepwear.I put on sweats with no shirt and all of them approved. Both girls went braless wearing a T-shirt to cover their ... goodies.When the knock on the door came, Tracy got up to help bring in the food. It was a rather young-looking lad, and her ‘girls,’ despite being covered, caught him like a bug in the track of a yellow. Mordrant lounged languidly on what Erin supposed to be a throne. Whatever it was, it was covered in animal hides that smelled all the way across the room. Or maybe it was simply the room that smelled so rank. Either way the assault on her senses was almost overwhelming."Your Highness, your Queen awaits" said one of the flunkies with just enough sneer in his voice to set the horde of street kids shrieking with laughter. As the laughter reached a nerve-jangling crescendo, Mordrant finally moved.. Corrine was crying? What had happened to her? I realized, to my chagrin, that I still cared about the girl. Knowing what a shitty boyfriend she had, I could only imagine what kind of trouble she was in."Thanks, mom."Without even pausing to consider what I was doing, I hung up and dialed Corrine."Hello?" The voice at the other end was raspy and strained, as though it was coming off the end of a long crying session. It had been maybe two weeks since I'd heard her voice (I mean really heard her.