.."That was as far as she got before she lost her nerve again. I pushed a chair away from the table and invited her to sit. She dropped the stack of p...pers on the table. The top one was one of my SOL stories, so I guessed that the others were, too."Did you like those?" I asked, nodding at the papers."Oh!" Candy seemed startled and a little embarrassed. "Uh, yeah, actually. That's, um, kinda what I wanted to talk to you about." Fire away," I said, enjoying the flushed, lightly freckled cleavage. He looked at Hafnan. “Give me her.”“Dude, just crack her over the skull and drag her by the hair like the caveman you are,” Owen sneered.“Fuck off.” Brett didn’t take another look at Hafnan and strode for the door. His courage gave out and he turned. “I just wanted someone to talk with at the bar. I’m not like him.”“Yeah, you can’t keep a woman,” Owen smiled as the door slammed shut with Brett outside it.“Are you happy riling him up?” Natasha asked.“Yes,” Owen said with a nod.“I do not drink. ‘I’ll see you at 7,’ he told her, as he greeted his son and made his way to his car. * * * I was amused, and intrigued, as I dressed for the evening. His sudden interest in talking to me had been surprise enough, but his asking me out on a date had definitely been unexpected. After watching him eye Alicia for weeks, I had assumed his type of woman was the superficial, supermodel type. Something I definitely was not. I knew what I had to offer a partner, but I become very used to no one else. The last I set on a plate on the floor before we carried the dwarf dragons out the back door. I had read about this and set fire and spice leaves burning.We moved so the two young dwarf dragons breathed in the smoke. It did not smell bad to me but the little animals went limp and I quickly put the fire out. I checked the one I was holding and pet and caressed it until it started to revive. It whined and I hesitated before I gave it a piece of meat.It growled and started eating and I set it.