The whole point of dating is to learn what you like and don’t like so that you can find that one person that can really make you happy.” She lean...d up and kissed him. “We got lucky; we found each other before having to go through all that… mess. The down side of that is that we never got to experiment with… other things.” “Sex.” “Mostly,” she bit her lip as she looked at him. “I mean,” she continued, filling the seconds of silence before Ron could formulate a response, “look what we’ve. She almost sighed aloud at the memory. She had had so many plans for her life but had wound up here, sitting next to a man she couldn’t marry and yet loved with all her heart. She broke the silence. ‘I’m sorry I wasn’t able to…’ She stopped speaking. Again they were quiet, but this time there was a returning warmth, of comfort in the silence, an echo of what they had done. She ran her finger over a small chip in the cup’s edge. He was watching her with a look of loving interest. Something had. Well, not literally.Through the doorway strode a tall figure. Cameron was larger than Ben had thought he would be, his head stooping slightly so as not to touch the top of the doorway. His eyes seemed to glow yellow in the dim light. His teeth were bared and were dripping red. The fur on his front was matted all over with blood, with small rivers flooding down his muscles.“YOU OLD FUCKER!” he roared. He lifted his arms, his claws glinting in the light from the street.Ben’s face fell.“Oh dear. Why did I go to law school? God, I wish I hadn’t, Sometimes I wish I hadn’t even been born. Or maybe I could have been born stupid, or studied less in school, or anything.All those young dreams I had, fighting for the right and setting the world on its proper course and doing good, good, good. All the work I put in, summa cum laude out of college, acing the LSATs, making law review, top of my fucking class, right into one of the really good law firms.They encouraged me! Hell, more than that,.