She’d get a hotel room for the night. ‘Tomorrow. I’m in the city, catching up with some friends.’ She said goodbye to her mom and put the phon... away. ‘Not seeing your parents until tomorrow?’ he asked with a grin. Lori nodded. ‘I was thinking of trying to catch up with some old friends in town tonight,’ she said smoothly. Derek’s smile faded a little. ‘Well, could I buy you dinner first?’ Lori smiled warmly. ‘I’d like that.’ They walked over to the municipal parking lot and stowed the presents. How the hell does something like this happen?Slowly, I got up and approached the mirror, thinking this girl could'vebeen a model. Whoever she was, she had a bloody well perfect body and Iwondered about her. Me, for now, I supposed. And as I touched themirror, a perverse thought slipped into my head.I only had to wrestle with myself a few seconds, checking all around tomake sure no one else was in the room, before quickly making sure thedoor out was locked and pulling off that. Jasen watched her move, seeing the change in her eyes and all over. He didn't want to hurt her and never intended to, almost regretting that he had asked in the first place. “You don't have to right now, or even tonight. Just, whenever you're...”“No.” Looking back up, she met his eye, and the sadness in them knocked the air from his chest. “I have to tell you now or I'll never be able to.” Every moment she was not speaking, she chewed the inside of her bottom lip, and unlike the first time he. You will be offered full pardon for you crimes if you not only agree to our terms of locating and retrieving Andre, but also you will be given a reward of thirty million dollars, a new identity if you wish and best of all…’ Dantes eyes slid shut as Estafana spoke the last word that sealed her fate. ‘Freedom.’ oOo ‘You’ve got to be kidding me.’ Estafanas eyes widened as Dante stood from her chair, a shadow of darkness covering the upper half of her face. Dantes glare was colder than before,.