It would mean that you would expose much, if not all, of your businesses to me.” “I appreciate your sincerity, but if I thought I couldn’t trust...you, and hadn’t already consider this aspect, I wouldn’t have asked.” “Thank you. Let me see what my employer has to say then, I will call them later. I should start keeping up with the piled up work anyway, now that I can use a computer with at least one arm. For now, if you will allow me, I would like to focus on my revenge. May I ask for a private. Over Nathalie’s panicked whimpers and the thrashing in the tent where my sister and Zanyia were tricked into making love, I heard the jangle of metal. That unmistakable clink of armor.My instincts screamed at me to fetch my weapons. I left my gear by the fire, my short sword sheathed. I raced for it, the shadows billowing about my feet, rippling like inky fog. I struggled to remember everything I knew about faerie.They hate iron.They made illusions.They liked to play tricks.The faerie we hunted. Ariana looked around the room, her attention was grabbed by a soft whimpering and arms waving in the air. ‘Be careful, Doctor Turner had to perform what he called a C-Section,’ Rebecca cautioned. ‘Bobby, how’s Bobby?’ Ariana wanted to know. ‘He is in a coma, in the Intensive Care Unit,’ Rebecca answered, helping Ariana sit up. ‘Would you like to see your daughter?’ she asked. Ariana nodded and Rebecca lifted the infant from the cradle and into Ariana’s arms. ‘She’s so tiny,’ Ariana breathed.. I turned my knees out of his Lexus and he lifted me with both hands into his arms. Right there it began. With mostly white shoppers coming and going all around us, his eyes filled with passion and he kissed me as possessively as a man could. I was his property. We turned together and walked toward the mall doors...he firmly held my right hand. Just inside this mall entry was the food court. It was filled with breakfast business and I had not taken three steps until I heard my name being called.