Hannah and Irene lay in bed together.Irene, nuzzling close to her wife, whispered in her ear, "Lover, if you can't stop screaming like that during sex... we're just going to have to gag you." Mmmmm. All part of my master plan."Gina turned on the v-phone and dialed a number. Ring. Ring. Rin-... "Dr. Warren's residence." The video screen remained blank."This is Gina Robinson. Can I talk to Ben, please?" Just a moment."Soon the doctor's face appeared on the screen. "Hi, Gina," he said affably. "Hey. But even without sex, where would I find someone that understood me like that? After work I went back to the apartment and made some dinner. I heard a knock and opened the door. He flew into the room like a tornado and before I could even say hello, he pinned me to the wall and his tongue was in my mouth. He fucked me up against that wall, and every other way he could think of before that night was over. For four nights we were like animals. We slept for less than an hour every night, and I had. .. that can't be just some random guess,right? There's got to be something there." But what, exactly?" Well, she said she wanted to grant my 'fondest wish,' and then shetold me exactly what my fondest wish really was." He fidgeted,rubbing his hands together. "What if she was telling the truth?" But how could she have known, if you didn't tell her?" Maybe a woman who can heal knife wounds can also read minds? What doI know? Anyway, what if a woman who can read minds and heal knifewounds can. It would be covered with buzzard guano by morning.”“Lucky me,” Tim said.Benny had been expecting Lily to come with Tim. He figured that it was time for Tim’s dreams of a white picket fence, wife, kids, two cats, and a dog to start coming true. He didn’t think Lily was the kind of woman who wanted to be single and independent.He asked, “So where’s Lily?”“She’s working today.”“I know you were hoping to do one of those dates that’s not quite a date today.”“We did that last Sunday. It was very.