Sharks and fish don’t get angry, and their sense of self-preservation isn’t the same as fear. The logic of survival rules everything. Kill, eat, a...oid death, breed.It’s impossible to explain to anyone who hasn’t been there, lived half on land and half in water.Cassie shrugged. “That’s cool.” Although to be honest, she didn’t seem like she meant it.PeeGee sent me a secretive smile and roped her temporary posse back on to the dance floor. I went back to scanning the crowd the energy was building. " He smiles close to my face. I gaze up in his eyes while he steadies my shoulders with his strong hands. I just smile back at him, feeling my heart thumping. I sigh, forgetting how good it feels to be held by a strong man. I close my eyes and feel my body melt away with all of my tension. His lips feel good on mine. I taste hot chocolate on them as I slowly open my mouth and poke my tongue out, pushing my hands up his sides underneath his arms. He makes me shudder when he pulls my head closer. I worried up his name: "Tolliver?"She shook her head."Anybody else?"She shook her head again with a grin. "And I haven't swived a man since you left town either," she said. "Nary a one, for fun or profit." Well, then," I suggested, smiling back, "maybe it's time you did."We finished mopping our trenchers, emptied our tankards and adjourned to a comfortable room above stairs. It took us very little time to get rid of our clothes and get under the quilts. She had a small but lovely body. She. She must take after her mom. Unfortunately, I know very little abouther real mom. All I know is that her name was Diane and that I hookedup with her at a club once.As we sit watching cartoons, we are suddenly interrupted with my cellphone ringing. I pick up the phone and see the name mom on the screen."Hi mom," I say as I answer the phone."Hi, sweetie," a voice responds that wasn't my mom's."Who is this?" I ask confused."It's your mother," the voice responds.The woman's voice sounds.