He could smell the perfume she wore. Crisp clean and yet slightly exotic. As she sidestepped past him, she realized her apartment was really built for...one.“So you never told me your name,” Nick said reaching down to open the cupboard. “It’s Melody. I just moved here not long ago. Well here to this building. I’ve lived in the city a long time.” Melody realized she was babbling. She watched as he shone his flashlight under the sink. Thank God she thought there wasn’t a bunch of stuff under there.. "Good morning you lot" to his workers assembled round the coffee urn."You'd better not have emptied that urn" to the assembly from Rowan coming through the door."Here's your morning read" thrusting a handful of chips at the Commander."We did mention this yesterday but it probably got lost in the avalanche; each work morning, the section bumble bees gather together in the conference room, - 3001-, to discuss the breaking news; over breakfast coffee, grab a cup and follow me; don't worry about. We were about halfway back to the gold fields of California and the Sacramento area when Rachel came to me naked as a jaybird in the middle of the night and announced, “I am with child, and I am certain that my sister Clarissa is in the same boat but doesn’t want to face the facts.”Right away, I knew my gut reaction was instant guilt because I had been poking them both frequently at every opportunity because they were so charming it was difficult to restrain my easily influenced man-tool from. Dinner was finished and I took my plate and Emili's and headed for the kitchen. As I rounded past Shiann, she held her plate towards me to take. I hesitated for a second and looked to Emili, who was engrossed in the TV show. When my eyes drifted back to Shiann, she nudged her plate forward and flashed a smile. Was it a devious smile? Or a polite smile? Either way, I muttered out, "Let me grab that, too." I may have been overanalyzing the situation, but I figured just grabbing her plate.