His conduct as to the task at hand was admirable, as he cut right to the crux of the needs before him, asking all the right questions to save them bot... time, yet maintaining a relaxed and confident poise, meeting her eyes often, that had a very comforting effect on her. She liked him immediately and felt a hard to define connection. Was it an aura kind of thing perhaps? She was receptive to that kind of thing. Maybe it was as much to do with hormones, her loneliness, and all those aching nights. You only got sixty minutes to work with remember?”No more words were spoken for a bit as he swung to his laptop, tapping away again.“What makes you believe not rejecting Nessa; saying you wanna be with her is gonna change anything man?” Syd asked while not facing me, “What makes you believe you guys don’t just break up and she ends up being with those losers anyhow?” A portion of the laptop’s screen was now occupied by a green timer displaying 1:00:00.“She won’t. She and I had a bond…it’s hard. ‘Before we go… will you make love to me again?’ ‘Now?’ She nodded. ‘But Heather… why? I mean, I want to make love to you very much… with all my heart… but I need to understand… what’s going on between us. I wasn’t trying to get in your pants, honest, but… What happened last night? Why did you…?’ She smiled and flashed her green eyes at me for a moment. Her smile faded. She swayed from side to side slowly, choosing her words carefully. ‘You… gave me something last night. Something no one. ‘Please, let’s have a seat,’ the manager suggested, trying once more for calm. Lani felt bad for him, she could see both the man and woman were high or drunk on something. Neither would be amenable to the soft approach. ‘I said, ‘back off!” the man yelled, and pushed the older man back. The manager stumbled a few steps and caught himself on the counter, but then slipped and hit his head. Lani watched as one of the staff behind the counter grabbed a cell phone. Someone had some common sense, she.