Despite having feelings for her, I should encourage her to move on and find someone more suitable."I want to be able to still see you," Selena says qu...etly as she stares into her drink and stirs it with her straw.I quickly reach out and grab hold of her other hand, resting on the table, startling her."Selena, I know I said it yesterday, but you should be with someone who you can have an actual relationship with, not me or Liam. I want what's best for you." Maybe what's best for me is you?". He turned to defend himself.Kushini’s sword slammed through his chest. She’d closed the distance so fast. My favorite slave, the only man I had found worthy enough to breed my daughter, died, his heart destroyed by Kushini’s expert thrust.His sword fell from suddenly limp fingers. His eyes found mine. I saw it in his eyes. Shock. Failure. He had wanted to please me.I would miss him. But his death was worth this sacrifice.Issanik cursed, his sword taking one of Kushini’s slaves in the neck. He died thirty-two hours after that. Joe arranged for his funeral, and he, Maria and their children, stood with the distraught Luisa and her son, as family. Following the funeral, they all returned to the ship.Nicholas returned to the ship quite shaken by his latest meeting with the Pope. His Holiness had not been pleased with progress in implementing certain portions of the plan. He had, in fact, told Nicholas that he would be expected to make another progress report in no more than three. After 5 hours, the bus drivers changed. I hadn't been off the bus at any of the stops and had had to use the seats to hop to the washroom. I used to drive bus casually once in awhile and I knew the new bus driver fairly well. So after 5 hours stuck on the bus, since this was a half hour stop, the driver assissted me to the Restaurant so I could grab a coffee and use the washrooms much better ammenities. Then as he was also a smoker he had a cigarette with me outside then helped me back on.