Luke's eyebrows raised at her comment. He knew the look in her eyes that she was masking, knew she wanted to be with him. Did he care about the footba...l player that was going to cream him after what he was going to do in the next minute? No. Luke loved Moria, and that was all he knew, no matter the consequences, he loved this woman."Moria." Luke cooed at her, and watched the internal struggle. He watched her shut her eyes, those grey portals to her thoughts, and take a deep breath as she tried. -oOOo-Cassie couldn't help but laugh at the irony of her situation. As Rick, she had always loved sports and had played football and tennis right the way through high school and she was an oarsman at University and had boxed while at the police academy. Of course, her job as a policeman and the shift work of the early years on the job put paid to most organised sports but she had continued to work out with weights and also to jog a few miles as many days as she could. Like every other guy she. Buster took my attention away from them. He nudged my leg with his nose. "Sit," he sat immediately. "Good boy." I gave him a half of a hush puppy that I had set aside for him to cool earlier. "Beg," I said. He cocked his head and looked at me. I took his front paws and raised him up to a begging position, let go and said. "Good boy!" before he could get down again, giving him the remaining hush puppy. I did it again. "Beg." One chomp and a swallow and it was gone. I wiped his muzzle with a. ‘I’m not doing another winter on the street,’ he resolved. A small part of him could recognize the futility of continuing on year after year with no end in sight. He had an epiphany. He didn’t have to go on like this. There was definitely something he could do about it. He drifted off to sleep. The wake up alarm sounded at 6:30 in the morning. ‘Everybody up,’ the admin officer ordered. He went downstairs to the soup kitchen and had breakfast after another sermon, of course. As he walked out of.