Dahra staggered into the archeology museum, nearly tripping over the leg of another body that was inside the doorway. She staggered across the foyer, ...p the stairs, and down the hall, to her office. Everywhere she went, there were more bodies. More death.She found Krinan laying in the doorway of her office. Her head and torso in the hall, the rest in her office. Her colleague was wearing the same frumpy outfit she had worn six months ago, when they had that hostile confrontation. Krinan's eyes. ‘There’s something about cops that won’t let them admit they’re heroes.’ ‘I’m not going to stay, Luke,’ Alex said. ‘I’ve got to get back to the office and talk to the Prosecuting Attorney, but I did want to make sure you were OK and let you know I think you did a helluva job this morning.’ ‘Sheriff, I…I really didn’t do all that much,’ Luke protested. ‘I…I don’t know why everyone is making such a fuss.’ ‘Yeah, sure,’ Alex said. ‘In spite of the fact that you’d been shot, you made sure Sergeant. . relaxing." Mind if I come in for a second? Or are you going to leave me standing on the front porch?" I unlocked the screen door and let her in. "You know I saw everything, don't you, honey?" My heart sank and my cheeks flushed. This woman is the neighborhood gossip, and before long everybody - including my wife - would know what she'd seen. She saw me blush, and winked at me. "You're afraid I'll tell everyone what I caught you doing, aren't you? Well, I might, unless you give me a. We shrugged along with her, at least internally. Helen would always be a puzzle.But Helena added, "I think, after millennia, she's found someone she loves, who loves her back without that annoying adoration." Shit," I said, making my lovers laugh, which included all the lovely ladies at the table. "I may be a stud, but I'm not a love god." But you are, my love," Helena pronounced. "Physically and emotionally. You attract it and sustain it, whether you intend it or not. You may even last as long.