They seem to have a type of dampening field when they are attacking. I believe this is why Captain Thomas wasn't aware that he was in imminent danger....Thomas softly growled, then nodded his head. "I went in thinking I was unstoppable."Shelby could only shake her head, then continued. "We are not going in singular any longer. You will have backup, or you don't go; do I make myself clear?" When no one said anything, Shelby almost shouted, "I said do I make myself CLEAR! You do not want to go. We talked till 9 when her and I decided to get some dinner before she went back to the hotel room. I was a bit nervous but made it through. We headed back to the hotel, I walked her to the door, gave her a hug and a peck on the hand and said good night.The day of the gala, I was running some errands when I get a text from Bayley saying the limo driver was picking me up 20 minutes earlier than scheduled. I replied that I’ll be ready by then. As I was picking up my tuxedo, I saw my friends when. But she also scares the hell out of all the men in Humper County. Most guys find it kind of intimidating to have a woman that can whup your ass in arm wrestling and then go home and bake a prize-winning cake and never break either a sweat or break wind.Homer was whanging away on a tin guitar that he found somewhere. The dam' thing was made all out of steel and galvanized sheet metal. That meant it had the harsh sound of an old whore's orgasm. But he was bound and determined that he was going to. Avriel hadn't been around any Lios before and she found it difficult to read Tara's features since they were so far from her own but the Lios' body language meant they were coming to the bad part of the story. "Arranged marriages are not uncommon in the Lios tribes and most times the bride is not consulted although she has the option of refusal to wed the man picked for her. When I was sixteen the mother and father arranged for me the wed a male Lios by the name of Slant," Tara said. "We've.