I drank it in. This final moment. For a moment, Ealaín stood with them, her body a wraith conjured from my imagination. She stared at me, nodding her...head. She knew what I had to do, her face twisted with pain.It would be so much easier if she was alive and here to protect my women. But Aingeal had her powers while Nathalie, Greta, and Zanyia would protect Ava and Kora. They had their armor. Their powers. They didn’t need me.It hurt. I wanted to rip out my heart. I wanted to pluck it. .. how canI do it?" "Well, you've got a few days. I'll tolerate you on Wednesday if you sit allthe way in the back and keep your mouth shut. But by Friday, you have to bewaxed and womanized." "What about the other students? What are they going to say?" "You will just have to be convincing, won't you? I won't tell them. GregMonroe will be dead to me, or at least withdrawn from the class as far aseveryone else is concerned. I'll even have a nice, pretty name for you.How's that sound?" "And my lab. I knew she was plowed. There was no way she would remember tonight if all she had was alcohol; but add the pain pills. This was a sexual mulligan! I had her in my arms holding her up. She was looking up at me. I pulled her closer. “Naomi, you are a beautiful woman” I lowered my head, my lips close to hers, “You are turning me on right now” Our lips touched – This was my move. I set there, waiting for an eruption of anger. I pressed my lips firmer against hers. I was still waiting to be told to. He figured if she was going to back out of this, his shirt coming off would be the time. He wasn’t a body builder by any means, but he was at least toned and not overly flabby. His waist was definitely bigger than it should be, but part of it was due to the scar. It ran from his sternum down to his waist line, cut with a surgeon’s scalpel. It had been an exploratory cut to find out what was causing the pain and fever after the appendix operation came up empty, no organ in sight. She tossed.