”Francis’ face looked crestfallen and resigned to his fate. Just with a hint of satisfaction that at least he had the rest of the night with Sue.~...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Seeing this scene between them, my earlier conviction that I’d done the right thing and that this would give us both closure inched a little closer to the finishing line. That annoying little voice of doubt didn’t appear again. At least not until the early hours of the morning.By then Francis had turned off. Hitler felt that the British stubbornness in refusing to surrender added to the Italian debacle in Greece was the straw that broke the camel’s back when it came to the kickoff of Operation Barbarossa. Those precious weeks that Hitler lost attempting to clean up the Italian Army’s mess in Greece threw off his time table for the movement of heavy armor to the gates of Moscow and he discovered that he was in the same trap that had destroyed Napoleon’s efforts to destroy the Russians deep inside. You feel close to me because I respect you and your thoughts and you seem to enjoy mine." I do. You put my teachers to shame. Not just in your intelligence on a remarkable variety of subjects, but in your brazen arguments. They would never have dared to counter me as you have. And, instead of feeling threatened, I feel ... enlivened, like emerging from a sealed tomb to take fresh air."The two eunuchs return with their heavy barrels of water. "Set them down," the queen commands. "We are. .. papi ... please!” Carlita kept begging me, but she wouldn’t say what for or against.I saw dark circles around her lovely brown eyes, too. I didn’t hesitate further, kissing my way down to her neck, on company time no less. I made no attempt to hide my intentions, turning Carlita’s head to bare her neck to my fangs. Carlita’s days as a human weren’t just numbered. The sands of that hourglass just ran out.‘Adam ... Adam ... papi ... oh, God! Dios mio!” Carlita panted and I could smell the.