“I’m sorry.”I kissed her forehead, and she got up and left. I guess Valentine’s Day was overrated.“So, feel like working?” Tyler asked.I j...st chuckled and shook my head. What the heck. Why not?“Sure.”She gave me a smile.“Good. Go take a shower. We need to get on the road.”Tyler had made some calls this morning and found that both Range Sports and Jade were willing to have me work on short notice. I was happy to see she’d lined up Jackie Chan to be the photographer. It wasn’t hard to understand. "Before you open this," I told her, "I want to be sure you take it in the spirit in which it is intended. Your presence here, and your willingness to allow these old eyes to drink of your beauty, has enriched my life considerably, so I thought I would see if I could enrich yours as well..."So saying, I opened the box to reveal the golden filigreed jewelry suspended from a chain and embedded here and there with rubies, emeralds, and diamonds, in the shape of a butterfly. It was worth a small. We’re like putty in his hands, Gaenna. He can give you back those last 200 years in a matter of days, but you’ll also be a kinder, more compassionate woman at the end of the process.”She squinted at the Maliri Queen suspiciously. “Why are you telling me this? Surely Baen’thelas could just change me in the way you’re implying without my even being aware?”“He would never allow you to make that choice without being fully informed of the consequences.” A disarming smile appeared on Edraele’s. I said, I don’t mind you fucking anyone anywhere anytime, but you should do your duty well. She was not relaxing a bit and then I asked where Asit (her boy friend) is? She said he has gone to the stadium for his event and will come back in lunch hour. Lunch hour was still more than tow hours and so I said what are you supposed to do here in the hotel? She was speechless. I asked her to seat on my bed and started telling her stories from here and there like what I was doing when I was a student..