From time to time, her red bra, shoulder strap would show and I imagined what she looked like without the dress on.All too soon, it was time for us to...get home and for me to hand her over to James. We had drunk a bottle of wine at the restaurant and, she wanted more wine when we got home. Suddenly, I realized that we had emptied two bottles of wine while we were talking, Christy was a little tipsy but, she still knew what she was doing.It was just after eleven fifteen when Christy said that it. " He gave us a wry smile. "Wish me luck."Luck indeed! My own pulse was racing with the possibilities of what I had just suggested. A dispassionate doctor I may be; but Sherlock Holmes excepted, no man could gaze upon the perfection of Lady Palmerston's beauty and remain unmoved. And now I should sit in a darkened room and regard that beauty in the loving embrace of a man; naked perhaps, in the firelight; to be taken as a man takes his wife. My heart pounded as I sat in companionable silence. "In front of the whole school, although the lighting wasn't great and it wasn't like others weren't doing the same. However, it was definitely not something a girlfriend should have been doing with anyone except her boyfriend. I could feel bile in my throat and dashed for the bathrooms. Kevin followed me. I think he was worried. That only made things we found in the bathroom worse." Linda?" Ami whispered.I nodded. "She was bent over, holding onto one of the sinks in the men's bathroom as David. "You are chilled?" her companion asked almost silently, his almond-shaped eyes never leaving the opposite end of the plain and his slim, pointed ears quivering with the intensity of his concentration.They were ordered here by the priests of Solas and Lunas, sent to meet with possible allies in their long-time enemies, the Dwarves of Xeuxondra. With the inadvertent thought of their Gods, Kiya's eyes rose to the lead gray sky, now patchy with clear areas of blue-green. The bloody orb of Solas and.