That surprised him. He tried to temper his reflex smile.“Me?” Maura snorted.“Mom wouldn’t let you take me tonight if I didn’t buy these.” ...e dug the condoms out of the white plastic bag.“Extra large, huh?” Maura grinned. “You won’t need those.”“I know right?” They both laughed. Adam thought it was a joke. Maura knew there wouldn’t be condoms involved. She stepped on the gas a bit more. She was getting back to Nut as soon as she could.Krysten and Jen pulled on t-shirts when they heard the door. “They were more true to their chromosomes than you are to yours.”“Since our mothers swung down from the trees, we’ve lived in a world where the male spreads his seed at will. ‘No’ was never an option for the females of our species. At least not until we evolved. As a race, we’ve been firing on half of its cylinders for much of our existence. We fail to evolve when one gender or another is ignored at the cost of the other. We are one people. We need one another, whether we like it or not.”“You. "Adams' face was red and she looked like she was going to burst a vein. She was certainly not happy, that much was obvious."Where is that bastard?" she growled.I shrugged, "He told me he was dead, I'm not sure I believed him. Belial's not going to interfere here in any case. I'm the end game that he was working towards for this particular venture." You don't think you can just waltz in here and take control do you? I don't care what Belial stuck in your head, you can't run this branch without. But at least my bet would then be paid in full afterward. When we had negotiated the terms of our bet we had determined that the last task to pay off the bet would be to come in public. But the details were left to the winner. * Sunday afternoon we sat in the local high school’s auditorium. One of the local drama companies rents the facility for their productions. This afternoon a matinee performance of Ira Levin’s Deathtrap was playing to a full house. It is wonderful entertainment: no.