"Her cheekbones lifted with the smile. The hometown explained her accent. Far flatter vowels than mine. She had an acutely feminine register, yet stro...g like she was used to projecting her voice, a pleasing cadence to her inflection.I finished my tea and glanced for a place to put the mug. She saw me."No coffee table yet. We're looking. I can take that."Kay held out her hand and I reached to pass it over. Our fingertips brushed for a fleeting moment but the effect was like a thunderclap inside. Not that I’m an expert, but I have a friend who’s a hairdresser, I could ask?”“If you think I ought to.” She was sounding a bit criticised, though I’d done my best. Her hair wasn’t layered it just stopped, and the fringe was surely all wrong for her round face. It looked like her wretched mother cut it in three minutes flat.“Well we could just ask. I thought girls are always changing their hair?” I sat next to her, arms and thighs touching.“Other girls are.”“It wouldn’t cost anything.”Faye. When I was in university I had a very close friend, he was straight, the boyfriend of one of my girlfriend’s. We shared many intimate moments and we lived in a constant bromance, we got d***k together, slept in the same bed together, we would hug and kiss, share secrets, he was the first person I ever came out to, in fact he asked me out right if i was gay and i didnt deny it and he hugged me and i cried on his shoulder and nothing ever changed between us. We shared many homoerotic moments,. ” Did he really want to dump more resources into that country? Yes, he had to save face. “You have my blessing. Take what you need. Do not fail me again.”“Yes sir, thank you, sir, I won’t sir.”Bannan left him to scheme. Now all he had to do is convince his superiors not to replace him.Leyla Lewitz enjoyed victory when earned. She and her legion had won two great battles at Grayhaven and Ridgehill, at least that’s how the higher-ups spun it. They got lucky, that’s what really happened. An.