She had a fire crackling in the fireplace, and put up her feet. It was bitterly cold outside, but toasty inside. She took a sip of her wine; it was go...d. She poured herself another when it was empty. “Why did the son-of-a-bitch have to betray me?” she thought, bitterly. “What did I do to deserve it?” She had asked herself that question a million times in the two years since the split, and she still had no answer. He’d wanted to atone, had wanted to stay together, but how could she possibly get. I wondered if there was something going on there since I knew that Sarah was a lesbian (or maybe bisexual after being around me) and Neva was also bisexual."Good morning!" I mouthed and thought to Cathy, trying not to move and wake everyone up."Good Morning!" she thought back to me. "Shall I get the nurse? Do you need some pain medicine or food?" Some food sounds like a great idea!" I replied and despite my attempts to keep quiet, my stomach grumbled loudly at that point.Erika shifted slightly. There was an instant attraction.She was attractive, in a tomboy kind of way. Tall, lean, fit, a redhead with a killer smile. She had been a jock in college, had gone on a volleyball scholarship, and had kept herself toned, working at a gym as a personal trainer, using her degree to design and implement routines for rich men and bored housewives. She was very successful.I was in pretty good shape. I ran, and did a lot of hiking, and a bit of rock climbing. I was two inches taller. When she took. The pulsing buzz hit him hard and he gasped, throwing his head back to fight off the will to do what the beast inside wanted him to do. It wanted the ASP members dead. It wanted him to turn his blaster on the woman he loved. He could almost see himself twisting his arm, poking the business end into Mira's beautiful face and pulling the trigger.He barely heard her voice but he could see her. She was nit picking at him again, every word that came from her mouth was a horrendous insult spoken in.