Within weeks, she had become his private secretary, nullifying earlier plans for Thesia to work for his mother.Now she looked up, and the smile that f...rmed on her face made his longing even stronger. He quickly joined the two women, remembering in time to give his mother a kiss before acknowledging Thesia with a friendly greeting."How was the ceremony?" Javila asked.For a moment, Macro thought she was teasing him. But then he realised that she really had not watched the proceedings from a. Karen dressed in a new outfit she bought just for the occasion, a lacey teal green bra with matching panties, garter and nylons. Kathy wore a black leather ultra mini skirt, a short tank top and nothing else.When Jim and Kathy arrived, Derrick had an expensive bottle of champagne on ice, and the four paired off with the their partners for the evening. Kathy and Derrick were on the couch, while Karen and Jim snuggled on the Lazy-Boy in the corner. Seeing that Karen had Jim pretty much occupied,. Still I kept an eye out. Anything could be hiding in the taller grass that stood on the far side of the river. It took me less than a minute to get to the carcasses of the three birds.I looked them over. They were huge and thankfully they were dead. The girls' shots had been deadly accurate. Both had pumped their first burst into the head of the lead bird. They'd gone in the front and then the rounds had torn the back out of its skull. Their second bursts had hit it dead centre in its chest.. “What can you tell me about the future, Gaap?”“The future is uncertain. Time flows in streams, branching paths that split and converge at the mercy of probability. Know that I cannot reply with absolute clarity. Each action that is taken changes the course of fate in subtle ways, but I can make a prediction.”“Tell me whatever you can.”“As you wish,” the demon replied, going quiet for a moment as it peered into the winding channels of fate. “I see a great convergence, an inexorable cataclysm to.