He had popped her cherry at eleven fifty-seven PM on New Year's Eve, and he was the best thing since sliced bread in her meagre experience. I had abso...utely no intention of trying to meet, let alone beat anyone else's ideas regarding the good, the bad and the downright ugly. Of course she used Gloria as her stick, and I knew that Gloria would take my under-age argument as a cop-out, so I did what I had been hired to do!Felicity was an eye-opener for me, I mean I had in the past, experienced. My breath was hastened as is, now I become increasingly lightheaded. I try to clear my head and calm my breathing, but I feel like puddy in his hands.Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. The word rings in my head time and time again. Yet I am incapable of resisting him it seems. Still I try. My pathetic and half-hearted attempt to resist ends in my wrists being held in his vice like hand.I feel tense and calm at the same time, it confuses me. He radiates control and calm. My mind tells me. His mission in life might, in fact, cost him his life.Now and then, when a gust of wind blew up, Steven could hear the bone in his hatband make a whistling noise. It was not unpleasant. As he walked with or in front of Jasper, tuning out the boy’s chatter and complaining, he focused on counting his steps and thinking about how to kill the dragon. 109,682. 109,683.He had studied herbology with the wise woman. He had studied ritual magic with the shaman. He had studied tracking with the hunter.. ‘ ‘Why am I so different? Could it be that we are both sitting here trying to figure out what game the other is playing? ‘ Jesse looked at him with a playful grin. ‘What if neither one of us is actually playing a game? ‘ Adam asked seriously. ‘That’s always a possibility, not a likely one though. ‘ ‘ Somehow, I just don’t believe that darlin. Considering so far what I’ve learned about you, always keeping everyone at a distance, yet you haven’t stopped me. Something is different. ‘ He couldn’t.