Maybe he couldn’t believe it. Cien looked up at Regan in disbelief. For a split second he thought she’d done it until he saw her. She was blowing ...t her feet hastily. She was going to hyperventilate. Behind her, he saw two of his men shooting arrows into the soldiers. Looking back at Regan, he realized why she was blowing so hard at her feet. Alex had dropped the torch on the kindling of the pyre. It was quickly engulfing the dried wood at her feet. ‘Regan!’ Her eyes darted up to his and they. .. she wants someone in her bed too," he finally answered after hesitating a long moment."Well, nothing wrong with that," Simon smiled."Damn thing doesn't work." What?" I said the damn thing doesn't work," he repeated. "hasn't worked in years. It didn't matter to your Aunt, she hadn't been interested in that part of marriage for a long time." Well maybe that wouldn't matter," Simon offered, "You said Aunt Donna wasn't interested, maybe she isn't that interested either." Oh she's interested all. If you want to visit Birgit, you can do that when we go back to Stockholm. If you think this is all foolishness and you don’t want to try, I can take you to Göteborg, or wherever you want, and I’ll come back here alone. I have no idea what’s going to happen in the next ten days, and honestly, I don’t know what I want to happen. There is one thing I do know, and that’s that it’s time to quit being foolish teenagers and to be adults.”She stopped talking, but still held me tight, her head on my. Not a lot of tables. Romantic lighting. It was perfect for our date.Just like my date with Laura, I took off Friday so I could relax, go to the gym, shower, and straighten up the house. I just didn’t want to get stuck at work on a Friday. I got dressed and headed to the bar I met Laura. Lisa didn’t want an impersonal hotel room. She wanted to see my place because Laura got to see it as well. I think she thought her experience would be the same. Well, not exactly the same, but the same.