I guess my memory's not as good as I thought. You're not Baby, right?" Right." I agreed. I stepped back into the house and hit the intercom. "Baby, Bu...ny. Front door, now." I didn't like strangers using their pet names and I didn't like this hunk - however hot he was - appearing at my door like a mail order sex toy. I wanted to control the sex toys.I decided that Juan and Sean were both being pulled off the schedule for a week if there wasn't a damn good reason for this.Juan appeared first.. No, although the angel of death had always been pictured as a scary skeleton bearing a sickle, he was always there to take people away when it was their time. He had nothing invested in punishing them. When it was a person's time, it was simply their time. We all worked to pull people back, but when you couldn't—like the person she was working on—then they simply passed. In fact, she felt such a sense of comfort from the powerful figure, she thought of the words she so often heard from. But a defeat will really suck the air out of his stature." Then we'd better do what we can to make sure he doesn't get defeated." Well, that road is going to be complete in a moon-quarter, and like I said, they've moved wagons with fireseed and horse fodder forward. Those will be the first to make the last push. And, I think, they have a clever logistos. No one saw fireseed, but those Mexicotal had to have been carrying some as well as the hay. I suspect that they are going to run the first few. I love you! You are the only man I have ever been with or ever want to be with. I am going to marry you and have your babies and grow old together with you. Get that through your thick skull!”“Yes, ma’am!”“Good!”“So, how is it you can take time off to come up here and meet me? Is it spring break or something?” I asked.Kelly gave me a sheepish look, and another sigh. “No ... Grim ... I’m not at Vanderbilt anymore. I left.”My eyes popped open at that. Kelly O’Connor was the smartest person I had.