Her envy angered her further. It wasn’t as if Denise lacked either beauty or brains. She knew she could hold her own in most circles, even around mu...h younger women, but Jacquí made her feel like a mutt. They shared idle chit-chat in the elevator and as they wove through the lunch line. More than once, Denise wondered what was up. Jacquí declined several invitations to join other groups, opting instead for a small two-person table against the far wall. Once seated, she decided to cut to the. I will be back to finish things with you." Okay," she breathes, and with one more heated kiss, he leaves her.In the healer's hut, the smell of blood equals the abundance of it. Moans fill the air. A tired healer attends to four injured warriors. "Hi," she smiles at Nick."Let me help," he says, saturating a cloth with his essence sprayed from a bladder. "Wash their wounds with this." A second cloth gets saturated, and he attends to the wounds of the other two. The moans quiet. Wounds seem to. " You should be good today anyway. You were naughty enough yesterday atthe pool, sulking because you had to take a shower." But I'll be extra good today," I felt my stomach churning at thechildish pleading, "I promise."Sara stopped rummaging through her bag and looked at me, her eyesnarrowing slightly. She looked nice, with her dark hair pulled up into ahigh ponytail and the flower print dress showing enough of her tannedlegs to cause just a frisson of ridiculous arousal in me. "You'll be agood. We'd been having a very casual but extremely fulfilling relationship for a couple of months now and I was pleasently expecting her to ask if she could come and keep me company tonight. "Hello Emily" I chirped into the phone, "How's you?" I'm fine thank you" she replied in her usual well spoken manner, adding, "I've been talking to a close friend today, Becky, and I was telling her about what a nice girl you are, so, I thought that if you were doing nothing better"."Yeah" I replied eagerly."Well.