Anne was also starting to flirt more openly with my friends, probably because of their obvious advances towards her. She would touch or rub up against...them at the slightest opportunity and had started to let the straps on her swimming costume drop as she sun bathed leaving her breasts exposed almost down to the nipples. The guys couldn’t take their eyes off her.It was Ben who asked her to rub some lotion on his back. He stood facing the pool as she worked the lotion into him and when she had. ‘Jesus Sammy,’ Miranda whispered, ‘That’s pretty graphic.’ Sam turned to face her, ‘Miri, take a few steps back and look at him, just look at him for a few moments.’ Miranda frowned but did so: Grey looked like he was in agony, his skin was fish-belly white and those cheekbones she’d found so attractive were almost completely covered by bruises. His hair was matted to his head, his nose was badly misshapen. Nevertheless, it was his eyes that pierced Miranda’s body, they were filled with a. ’ ‘After all,’ Sean interjected, ‘that’s the first law of super-heroics.’ Both the Secret Service Agent and the former Delta operative looked at him like he had come from outer space. Sean glanced from one blank face to the to the other. ‘Masks? Rebekah Hendershot? LA superhero fiction? Ring any bells?’ He, frowned, rolled his eyes and muttered, ‘No one reads anymore.’ Athena’s attention turned back to Sean — which was the point of his odd comment. ‘Okay. Let’s talk about your weaponry.’ Sean. Anything that inyour old life you might have thought was intellectually stimulating nowbores you. You have a very short attention span. If people starttalking about anything intelligent - politics or biology, oh anything -your mind will wander. You'll think about kitty cats and women'sfashion and make-up and celebrity gossip and boys. Men. You'll thinkabout how horny men make you. You like men now. Do you understand."I squeaked again. I couldn't help it. He kept asking me if.