"Why isn't he in the morgue?" Frank asked.She rolled her eyes, jerking her thumb at the ceiling. "The Big Guy insists he's salvageable. Writers," she ...rumbled sourly."If anyone can save him, it's you, sugar." He danced up to her, seriously grooving and snapping his fingers. "Ohhh Yeahh! Have I told you how much I love your taste in music?"Tonya pulled out a hypodermic needle. "Stop dancing this second, or I sedate you." Frank stopped dancing. "God!" she snapped, "I fucking HATE this song!" Then. " When you get it, call us so we can get YOUR phone in ours. Call it a late or early birthday gift, or an early Christmas gift."She threw her arms around Floyd and started kissing him. "Thank You." Just then Maria and the girls came out of the house, and surrounded them. Maria looked at her, and told her. "Just remember that this is YOUR home." Althea and Susan stepped nearer to her. "And WE are your little sisters. All three of them kissed her, then turned to Tony. "YOU better treat her RIGHT,. . Where did you come from?”Suddenly a soft pair of hands gently lifted him from his precarious perch on the tree trunk. He looked up to see a beautiful woman looking down on him. He snuggled in to her soft naked breasts and again... he was out.Chapter 11Leaf's storyLeaf, being on point was trapped between each faction. He had a clear view of each side but could aid neither. But he had a view of the entire incident. The assassins and Mages seemed to react first resulting in the wounding of the. Few places on the earth are as hot and stifling. Those with money and time leave. Those with no other choice stay and work.I fell into the second category. I was 20 years old and in between my first and second year of college at NYU. I was working full time at a swanky restaurant downtown and had finally saved up enough money to move into my own cramped studio apartment on the lower east side. Two of the other girls I cocktailed with at the restaurant and I had spent all day moving my stuff.