‘Don’t go,’ he murmured softly. Holly stopped what she was doing, her back stiffening. ‘What did you say?’ she asked, not turning around to ...ook at him. She felt a sense of dėja vu, he’d asked the same thing of her the first day they’d met. ‘I want you to stay,’ Alex said, a little more loudly. ‘Don’t go.’ Holly leaned against the dresser, her shoulders sagging as she lowered her head. For some reason she felt like crying again, she was bone tired, and she just didn’t know if she could take. Did you gain anything by leaving? Did being gone "clear the air" at all for you?(Raven) As to my exile: It wasn't "quite" an exile. I wrote under Ariel the Fallen Angel during that hiatus. I still have issues, Chili. I'm working them out.(Chilli) I'm glad you're back.(Raven) I did learn that people easily forget you if you go.(sue) How do you see this genre evolving in the next several years?(Raven) I think those that first get into this genre write about sex and fantasy. Then they. "Nicole wanted me to understand how women think andfeel about sex so I could understand why they do what they do aboutsex, especially during sex. Why we do what we do, I mean. That'swhat she said. I needed to know what's important to women and whatisn't, to 'develop my sympathies' or else I wouldn't be fit to joinyou here. So I read everything she brought me very carefully."Maureen was delighted. "Good thinking, Nicole! So you learned allabout how to fascinate men and lure them into your. Plus, he wanted to savor the moment when Dakota's feelings changed for him. She was just chatting away and flipping pages and Trent didn't see anything different in her behavior. It had been about fifteen minutes since he'd applied to the drug. His conscious nagged at him because he really did like Dakota. She was such a sweet, bubbly girl. More than just being sexy she was fun and Trent just enjoyed being around her, but that wasn't enough. It had never been enough. He wasn't the type that.