The Haywoods, Larry, and Nadia arrive and get ready too. Then it’s into the portal and off to Shiloh.The trip and arrival are normal and they’re a...l soon armed from the cupboard in Kyle’s office. It’s taking time, but he’s starting to regard this as his office now and not Jonas’ office.They go outside and each moves off to check their own work areas: KK to the stables with War Bonnet, Nadia to the troop training, Larry to the blacksmiths to go back to teaching them about the metallurgy of the. Within five minutes he had a call back, telling him that it was registered to a Russell Anderson, at 1521 Alta Vista Way. Tom followed them for another ten or fifteen minutes, grinding his teeth every time they hit a stoplight, because Ann and Russell would spend the entire light cycle kissing and hugging. By this time Tom was so angry that he could hardly function. Here he had been worried sick about Ann for months, and now she was showing more emotion and love with this asshole than she had. ‘What do you think?’ he asked. She took a breath. ‘I don’t know where to start.’ She moved closer to the bed. ‘I’ve seen pictures in books, but they look nothing like you.’ She caressed his shoulders. Her touch was light, tormenting. ‘In my books, all the men are much thinner, nothing like as broad across here as you.’ She leaned over to span his shoulders with her hands. The position put her close to his mouth and he longed to reach up and kiss her. He forced himself to stay still. She ran. ”“Danni don’t tease me you know I hate when you act like that.” He said without even looking back at her. His heart wasn’t in it when he knew she wouldn’t go through with it after all it had been nine months of dating and nothing more than dry humping on the couch in his apartment leaving him feeling rubbed raw and unfulfilled.She held up a tear there was so much he needed to know and it was so hard to tell him everything. She had tried so many times but it never felt the right time to say.