Could I outrun that?I moved, jumping away to relative safety. The bold grazed my feet, but I felt nothing more than very hot shoes.Maelstrom found me...."You are fast. The rumors about you are true then. Speed, strength, and who knows what else." I'm loaded with surprises," I said standing up. "Why not come over and find out what?"He shook his head. "No. I have other plans for tonight. You are merely a distraction at best." You can't hit me with lightning," I retorted. "What makes you think. Sometimes that one thing was the status of being with the semi-famous Thea Queen ... or sometimes it was the other thing.But mostly both.She definitely had her needs and had made mistakes on occasion, but there was no emotional connection.Whenever she tried to meet guys, she was mostly disgusted.They were so full of themselves.Don't have a care in the world about her as a person.She had never loved any one of them romantically, not even close.But for some reason, society said that she was. I went over to the Hilton and settled in the bar around dinner time."Mind if I join you? You look a little down in the dumps." I had seen him walk in. He was a real hunk, garbed in a custom-made suit that must have cost four or five thousand, and he wore it like the cost was unimportant. I wanted to fuck this guy badly, and if I could get him to the apartment and tape him, he might be a very good shakedown victim."Sure, have a seat. I'm just a bit tired. I just got back from the Indian. Frustrated, the scientists gave him DNA from a tiger, a snake and a wolf, but he still wasn't affected by it. Believing he was a failure, he was sent to the forest. Unknown to the scientists, Asher had changed. He was holding back his abilities.As Asher waited for his group's turn in the forest, he made friends with one of the other subjects. A girl who was taken when was very young. She couldn't even remember her name. She was very sickly and weak. As they were being led into the forest, Asher.