"Take off my shoes Portia.''I careful took off her heels and placed them to the side. My heart of pounding even at her fairly innocent order. Her feet...were soft and she had elegant toes for someone who wore heels so much even in down time. I couldn't look at her, this evening was turning into my wildest dreams and I was mortified at my own excitement and willingness, given that I had been found out quite so easily. Although Grace seemed to know exactly what she was doing and was enjoying it.. Dysea spoke. When you have finished, you and Arzoal come to Aetia and I will tell you what I have seen.Dysea ... my sister.I have seen death Iriral. I have seen death on a scale I can not even begin to imagine. Hurry my bonded sister. Dysea spoke. She turned to Isabella. "You have your brother?"Isabella nodded. "Yes." Then pick up this Roland as well." Dysea ordered. "This ends today Bella. This is no longer about biogenics. What I have seen ... it makes me shudder."APO PRIMEUNITED LYCAVORIAN. I was still on bed rest for another month due to the pelvic fracture and hip damage, but I had both my arms working again.Eve came to see me about once a week. She’d hacked the hospital records to see how my condition was. She and I settled into a friendship that didn’t quite manage to develop past friends into more. We’d never be lovers, that was for sure, but she was more comfortable with me. It turned out that she was NOT the girl in the costume picture she’d sent to me. She’d found it. For a couple in their late thirties, they'd done incredibly well. Marie had been one of the originals in a startup software firm that had hit big and been bought. John's career in contract law was less flashy but by staying independent and working with low overhead, he'd banked just under a million dollars in the last few years. Plus they'd bought Google on the way up. They were comfortable. The alarm on his laptop beeped. It was noon. He'd told Lora he'd be there at noon. Why was he.