But addressing the girl now in front of me and begging her to remove my implements of torture was even more so. “Would you please remove the paper c...ips from my Nipples, Ma’am?” My eyes were hopeful and, what I hoped, demure. “Let me think…” Her eyes travelled away and she rubbed the tip of her nose. “What are you going to do for me in exchange, Bunnie?” For a moment this felt too much. What could I offer? What dared I offer? There was only one direction this could be going, but would I offend. ”“Well, that sounds serious.” I propped myself up on one arm, so I could look down into her eyes. “What is it?”“I know you’re not ... well, faithful to me, while you’re out and about. I don’t expect you to be. It’s not in your nature, I know that. Like you said, love multiplies. And I’ve heard of your healing magic, like you did to help me. I just ... I don’t know. It’s ... sometimes I just want to be a wife, not have to put up with all this court intrigue. Just be you and I together.” She. Don’t think we have any insect-based dishes,” she muttered.“You serve meat, is that right?” Tepin asked, trying and failing to suppress a flutter of excited yellow.“We have lots of different meat dishes. Pork, beef, chicken. Oh, you won’t know what any of those are...” She thought for a moment, one hand on her hip as the other scratched her chin pensively. “How about a meat platter? That way, you can sample lots of different kinds at once. Maybe some fish too, if you’d like. I think we have a. It was one thing to leave to go enlist in the air force, but to have no disregard to her feelings. It nearly killed her right then. A week later, Natasha still hadn’t returned any of his phone calls, refused to see him during the school day, and when he stopped by her house, her parents made up lame excuses as to why he couldn’t come in or why she wouldn’t come to the door. He knew he hurt her and that he broke her heart, but he was going to be leaving for basic training right after graduation.