“Does Jess know?”I shrugged, “I’m not sure. Obviously, Malik has to know because he’s going to be there. I’d guess he told Al, but Al does...’t usually work weekends, and I doubt he’d call Jessica to tell her. I think it’s best to wait until she gets home rather than have her thinking about it all day with nobody to talk to.”“She’s a nervous wreck.”“I know, but she’s held it together just fine at the hospital. She’s in full ‘Doctor Jessica’ mode, and even though she’s been a bit too much like. Besides, I believe I may be able to enlist Elizabeth Wilson for our cause. She is a warm-hearted woman, and she is our age.”“You know Elizabeth Wilson?” Lady Colton asked excitedly. “I only heard of her. She is rather new, isn’t she?”“Yes, she opened only two years ago. Before that, she had her shop in Portsmouth. She partnered with Gwendolyn Archer to open her shop on Bond Street.”“It may be a good thing that I brought some funds with me. I heard she is fabulous, and I could stand for a. What could I do? I just kept looking down at my feet,and basically got led to a salon chair.There, they did unmentionable things to me. They basically rippedthe hair off my legs, arms and chest, face, neck and back. Butsoothed it, then, with nice smelling creams. My eyebrows weretorn from me, but then soothed with nice smelling lotions. Andsomething was done to my hair, which smelled just awful! Butthen, it felt kinda nice!At the end, I was led back to the bitch in HR, what a pompouswoman! She. He motioned for me to proceed and a moment later, my arrow was in flight. His laughter caught in his throat when the arrow struck dead center of the target’s chest. Pulling another arrow from my quiver, I motioned at the target silently requesting permission to shoot again. Again, the Captain motioned for me to proceed but he wasn’t laughing this time. Every man in the courtyard and many of the guards on the walls were watching, rapt. This arrow buried itself right next to the first.“Obviously.