They stepped out into the coolness of the night, and Miranda shivered lightly, as she tried to juggle her bag and her coat."Here, let me give you a ha...d." Marcus held her coat so that she could slip her arms into the sleeves."Thank you."He was standing behind her ... very close, and as she shrugged the coat onto her shoulders, he drew it together in front of her ... his arms closed around her waist, and for a moment he pulled her back against him; so that he could breathe in her scent with a. " You really are being too hard on her." Ooh, who's the cute girl?" Rachel purposefully ignored the statement, choosing instead to focus on the background photo on Nigel's laptop. The picture was of a young girl with straight black hair and obvious Asian features, holding a small terrier puppy in her lap."That's my daughter, Hoshi," he replied. "But that's beside the point..." Did you bring her to Hawaii with you?" No, she lives in New York with her mother. Rachel..." How often do you get to. . Well, I don't know where, but it would surely be supremely undesirable. In another scenario, I just dissolved away, rather like a vapor. But fortunately, this didn't happen, for one day I discovered what surely had to be 'The Box' in our mail, and tossing all the other mail on the kitchen table, I fled to my room.There were no surprises because it was just as the catalogue had promised. They were so real in appearance, in touch - so... perfect that it made my eyes water. They were mine, and. ’ ‘Your carnal appetites are undiminished by all your conquests over the years then, not to mention half a corridor of beauties to seduce since you moved in?’ ‘Of course not,’ he grinned. ‘Some might be sated.’ ‘Too bad for them’ ‘You are verging on arrogance, sir,’ she admonished him. He shrugged. ‘I was only offering feedback – no criticism implied.’ ‘I understand.’ ‘I can see,’ she began to recite, reaching out to clutch the arm of the chair and closing her eyes to aid her memory, ‘the.