Standing, he towered over the seated Rebecca so he kneeled down on the shower floor in front of her. He picked up the wayward showerhead in his right ...and and lifted Rebecca's left foot with the other hand and began slowly working the warm water from her foot upward.Tony's touch on her foot sent a small spark of electricity up Rebecca's leg. He began slowly move the shower up along her leg, over her knee and up her thigh. She shivered as the rivulets ran from the top of her thigh down the. When he pulled in and got out of his truck, she gave him a quick hug to say hello. She followed him to his home, and spent the next hour talking to him and getting to know him. She found out that she had a lot in common with him. She had no intention of doing anything that would permanently change her life, and impact her in so many ways that she wouldn't know which direction her world was going for a few weeks. Meeting him changed all that, however. He took her into the house and showed her. What helped even less was her asking, "Would you mind sticking around? I want to speak to you in my office after the others leave."I could feel myself pale and she noticed. "You passed, by the way."For a moment all I could do was stand there and stare into her blazing blue eyes. From a distance she was a spectacular woman but suddenly, this close, she was almost breath-taking. I nodded in a quick, tight movement, acknowledging both that I passed and her request to talk in her office. Somehow, I. After my father, it hardly even seemed like that terrible of a deed.“What?” Greta, breaking away. “You tensed.”I bit my lip. “We’re going to flee the castle soon. We’re going to Sven. With the Lodestone destroyed, I don’t need to be here.”“But don’t you need to be close to your father to spy on him?”I shuddered. I so wanted to be close to him. “Not any longer.”“But, what if he has new—”I pressed a finger against her lip. “We are leaving. We’ll being making our preparations in the morning,.