She was very beautiful in that Midwestern perky-girl sort of way. ‘I have no idea what happened. She didn’t even to appear to like him until one d...y she and Tony just showed up at the house together, a new couple.’ I smiled at her and she tilted her head and looked at me questioningly as she realized I was watching her so closely. ‘Sorry, didn’t mean to stare, but you really are a beautiful woman.’ She blushed. ‘Thanks.’ She didn’t sound sure about that. ‘No, I mean when I first met Paige in. I decided on the first trip to wear women’s sexy boots rather than heels so walking would not present a problem.I drove the 40 miles thinking the whole way about what I was going to say and do when multiple men approached. By the time I got to the bookstore, I was nervous. I almost turned around and went home. I went in the clerk acted as though I was anyone else. Took my money and I went to the back of the store and into the theater area. It was a Saturday early evening and I thought maybe I. His finger slipped inside me. I groaned like he had done earlier. I liked how it felt. My naked body with my ass up in the air in the hotel room of this older man and he was shoving his finger into my ass. And it felt good. I started to push back a little. His finger went in and out of my ass and then I felt him introduce a second. It felt like the first one all over again. My body tensed up and it took another effort to relax enough for it not to be uncomfortable. Once I had accommodated his. That he had sometimes dueled with enemies that had absolutely no chance against a Liminal Knight with a threshold blade, and that he had struck them down.He said none of those things.Instead, he whispered. “Better them than you,” he breathed.“No...” Venn whispered, looking aside.He caught her cheek. “If something happened to you, I...” His voice caught. “I would burn the whole universe, Venn.”Venn’s eyes widened and her breath came out in a sigh. “Thale...” She kissed him then – her lips.