Wounds still pained his flesh but he was healing much quicker than he could have hoped for, thanks to Beauty and the strange healing properties of her...saliva. He still had no idea what that was all about and she had been unable to explain it beyond that it “felt right” to do.Logically, he knew he needed more time to fully recover from the last battle but the fury seething in his chest would not let him wait or rest any longer. Baroness Graveek had taken something precious from him and that was. "I guess there are weirder ways to meet people."The one dinner, turned to two and then to three. Emily tried to fight itbut the two of them had so much in common. She never expected asuccessful lawyer to be such a theater and movie geek.Both had been into drama in college, Jack was still active in a smalltheater near where he lived. They even found themselves using the samestupid quotes from movies. The best time the two of them spent togetherwas snuggling up on her old couch watching old. "As she returned to her work, "Chances Are" began to spill from her lips.She moved from his thighs to his abdomen and he closed his eyes, enjoying the conflicting currents in his body. As always, her touch excited him and now was no exception, his erection was a constant thing, faintly bobbing as she kneaded his flesh beneath her hands but yet that very effort of hers drained the tension from the area. He wanted to come but he was in no particular hurry and felt quite content to let things. I sat around in my dress, pretty muchat loose ends, until I thought of looking at a book. My room was full ofbooks about cars and woodworking and sports, but off in a dusty cornerthere were some girls' books my folks had gotten for me years before. Inever read those. In fact, I had torn a couple of them up in a fit oftemper, and they had punished me for being destructive; but after that theyhad given up on me and let me read what I wanted. They still wouldn't buyme any boys' books, but they.