Her body froze and her trance broke when his hand touched hers. Her heart pounded in her chest as his fingers wrapped around her hand. She found herse...f gasping for breath as her eyes glazed over becoming a darker shade of brown. "Hi, my name is Joe," he said with a slight smile. "Sorry about that, Joe, my name is Joy," she said just above a whisper trying to keep from blushing, even though she knew it was a losing battle; she could already feel the heat flooding her cheeks. Joe held out. He still had a lot of teaching to doand everyone at the college still thought of him as a man. If anything, itwas fine because the semester was only half over and stealth was the nameof the game.He put the Starbucks cup on Mary's desk. He didn't know where she was.Probably using the copier, he thought. He was hoping to see her. He wantedto talk to her about her brother. Frankie couldn't stop thinking aboutBruce. Ever since their date, he had been in Frankie's thoughts anddreams. And the bastard. She had the firm curves of a young adult but her eyes spoke of great sorrow. Arryn had come to Highacre after being fired from the last stable she worked at due to the fact the dragons were always trying to mate with her and the owner did not approve of this. It was then she learnt that she was one of the few women who could be impregnated by a dragon if that dragon breed birthed live young. When Arryn arrived at the Highacre stable she had explained the whole situation to Vikoria who took her. I had this expectation of the kids in front of the television, maybe eating dinner there, and Stacy setting up a more serious 'adult' dinner for us. I hoped she had some wine ready. I'd had 'one of those days' and the traffic hadn't helped.I walked into the house and all was quiet. Well, it was nearly quiet. There were no children around, but I did hear some kind of groan from our bedroom wing. I needed to change clothes anyway, so I strolled through the family room and living room, and started.