She’d always slept cold in the past. He went and poured himself some water from the kitchen before returning to the couch, where, despite the early ...our, he too soon succumbed to slumber. ***** Ellie woke up and looked around blearily. She hadn’t meant to sleep more than a few minutes, but apparently it had been a few hours. Alec was sleeping as well, though since she had taken up part of the couch, he had just stretched his legs out on the coffee table. He was pretty soundly asleep it seemed.. I saw the other Demons lobbing balls of energy while the rest continued to fire their guns until their clips ran out."No," I whispered, denying what everyone else was so certain of as the cold wind blew the smoke away. I felt something inside me snap and all conscious thought fled as a black rage took over.I found myself in full panther form, leaping on the closest person. I had their throat ripped out and was on the second one before anyone even knew I was there. I continued to savage them,. But I had never loved another woman in my life, and even though I am not going to claim to be one of those saints who’ve never even looked at another woman (liars, one and all), I was still her prisoner in my heart. I guess that ruled out bumping her off, too. Please — Don’t get all huffy. I’m just joking! Late that night, I had my brilliant insight. At last, I was able to lie down and sleep a couple of hours before getting up and going to work. I was out early, before Amanda and the kids were. She sent me a text with where her band would be playing for the next couple of weeks. I promised to come see her. She made me promise to practice what she’d taught me, and we would get together on Thursday to work some more.When I got home, Dad told me that we were going to Coach Mason’s house. The reasons we were going to his place instead of having them come to ours were twofold. First, he was still recovering from his stroke. Second, Bo Harrington was there too, and if Bo came to my place,.