He made it as far as his room and collapsed face down into bed.Hours later a cold bucket of water rouse him but a little. A second did the job. "You m...ssed a spot," Ree'al spoke through his pain."Get two more buckets," a woman spoke.Her voice was beautiful, Ree'al didn't want to hear it. He turned over, now face up. Naked, drunk, and smelly, any of these three qualities should chase the woman away. He had yet to open his eyes but after two more soakings, he cracked them open. Ree'al blinked. I doubt we can use anyone other than a convict, bearing in mind what we plan to do to them.? Patterson sighed and picked up the last file. ?Well, let’s see what Dean Heladios Brown Cruz has to offer us, apart from a quite remarkable name.? The door opened on a very handsome young man. He was a good height, lean and muscular with dark hair and blue eyes that reached across the room to the two women behind the table. Patterson theatrically smacked her lips as he sat down in. She didn’t want this great wizard, her father’s friend, to think she is afraid. She gripped her blanket tightly and and caressed his cheek with her other hand. His skin was taught and smooth. A shock went through her as she touched him. She felt vast depth in him. There was a power too, and a yearning. But as she sought him out he retreated and she could not find his thoughts. She pulled back her hand, breaking the contact and immediately collapsed to the floor. She woke on the couch, the. Then, each of them took turns eating lunch in the back office while the other minded the front of the store.All in all, Dan thought, it was turning out to be a pretty typical retail position; maybe even a bit mundane.About an hour after he finished his lunch, the first customer of the day came in the shop. She was a professionally dressed woman in her early thirties. She had long blonde hair that came from a bottle, based on her naturally dark eyebrows, but not even her poor choice of hair.