He quickly took his clothes off and stepped into the soothing hot water.“You’re so beautiful,” he said as he gazed at her.“It’s going to tak... more than flattery to convince me that you’re serious about marrying me,” Grace said quietly.Mac inhaled sharply and let the air blow out slowly. He’d come awfully close to fucking things up, and it was up to him to fix this.“I brought the prenup papers from Michael Stone for you to look at. I wish you’d let a lawyer look them over. But at the very least,. Billy's heart was hammering, Robyn was looking at him knowingly. She hada coy little smile on her face. His blush started at his toes and wentto the top of his head. He turned his head, he was still bent over andshe still had her hand at the small of his back. She gave him anotherslap with the quirt. "Ok billy, your rest is over, make our lunchplease."Amy watched the flower bounce as billy stood up straight and started tomake sandwiches, he wiggled across the room to gather bread and then tothe. Before you go back home, meet us in front of Trinity Court. Oh yes, don’t change out of your uniform”. Suddenly she was alone as the three disappeared, leaving her world shattered, and wondering what they were going to demand.It was twelve o’clock, she would normally finish her beat and be back at the station in three hours, but for those three hours she was going through every permutation she could think of what had gone wrong and what those boys were going to ask of her. She cursed herself. Something stirred in the air in the area between the sacrificed girls. The other guards stopped and stared in awe as a tear opened out of nothingness, as if the very fabric of reality were ripped in two, and flames burst forth from it.The Duke laughed joyously. "It worked! He is coming!" he shouted."What is all this, what wickedness has the Duke brought upon us?" Jonath asked Kimber."The lore is inconsistent, save for one thing: we're fucked. Be ready to fight," said Kimber, fear evident in her.