He wasn’t interested in business that evening, so I listened as he told his war stories of fifty years of ministry, every one amusing. It became cle...r that he was genuinely concerned for the priests in his diocese, regardless of orientation, and he never foisted his affections on anyone. As he wound down, he leaned over conspiratorially and whispered in my ear: ‘My Violette has taken a shining to you, lad. She’s a wonderful girl and would make any priest an ideal wife.’ Gulping, I said: ‘I’m. “Hence my outburst at the end of the case today. I’m so sorry, I had no idea she was like that, until I did and then it was so close to being too late. If you were not so in love with your husband, it could very well have been.” Tina squeezed my hand.“Yes, the attempt sort of fell flat when Tina showed me the texts as she received them. The only issue was perhaps them getting spread around and people getting the wrong idea.”Chris nodded, “It was a back a couple of weeks when I started to put. ”“Have you seen a position I couldn't handle?”Abbey scanned Will's sculpted body, clad in his usual sweater and dress pants. “I have not.”“Moot point. Based on your improved mood, I presume you and Jed are on the mend?”She walked away from her desk and joined Will on the adjacent cushion. “He flew in Thursday night, apologized, and…”“Ate you out for three days?”“Dude.”“Sorry. Forgot it's Monday morning. I had my friend hat on. Taking it off, replacing it with my employee helmet.”“Can you wear. You see I am Kermac as you so correctly identified and I am a Telepath. I can read your thoughts. While I could fix your tongue and make you more comfortable, I like you to suffer and know who is in charge here. Any thought of escape I will know as soon as you think it and I will take measures to prevent it.”Roy didn’t want to talk to that slime but he could not stop his own mind from thinking and the question as of why the Kermac were so interested in a simple Terran Teenager was heavy on his.