Her animal desire to ravish him there and then was only kept under wraps by the mysterious, irritating power he somehow wielded over her.“Goodnight,...Beth.” Nothing in his tone, facial expression or body language indicated an inclination to spend the night, starkly in contrast to Beth’s pleading eyes and tight grasp on his hand.“You could come up” Beth began, a hint of desperation in her voice, “For a nightcap?” Immediately she felt an idiot but she knew she’d have beaten herself up all night. ”The Captain had to agree with her. He also knew he was going to wear them. He thought Sung might like them. He was also looking forward to seeing the lingerie, Sung got.Lee had told the ship’s crew previously that they were ‘payment’ from the faeries for their new homes. They could give her the orders for more. She had even worked out a system with the Captain that the crew could deduct payment from the crew’s wages.She would issue the equivalent in gold to the faeries from their supplies.. I told him that it would be the perfect bond between us. Anact of love that would always keep us together. He said he would haveto think about it and went quietly to bed.When I woke up the next morning he was gone. All I found was a note: Thanks for everything, got to go, be back someday, BillyI was stunned to realize that I probably would never see him again. Ifelt angry and betrayed that he would leave me without a word, afterall the intimate moments we had together. Then I remembered, at. . the hairstyle.” “I have Bone Cancer,” she said forthrightly, almost still smiling as she glanced out towards the dance floor. “It’s terminal.” “I don’t know what to say to that,” I replied, feeling the entire atmosphere suddenly changing in the room, despite the thumping music and flashing lights, “ . . . except I’m sorry.” “You know,” she said, turning to me, “that’s the first honest reaction I’ve had from a stranger since this whole sleigh ride began for me. I like that.” “You come.