"You said I could cut the deck and go for a few days, but if I stayed and tried for the job, it was reshuffling. You can't unshuffle the deck. You wer... right, but the opportunity here is tremendous. How could I turn it down?" He tried to reason with her."Easy, by thinking of me first, but you thought your future was more important than me, just like I think mine is more important than you. I guess we've been wagging the dog all along in many ways. It hurts, but maybe we're better off finding. Their conversation went something like this. Hi, Jess Stacey?, What do you want? Oh come on Jess hold the hostility, put the past behind us Ok, but what do you want?, even when we were friends you never called unless you wanted something Your right!, I called because I miss my friend, I want you to come over tonight so we can hang out like we use to I would like that, what time? Around 4pm that way we can play and you can stay for dinner Dinner? Dont worry my dad is getting us a nice 20. Are you on vacation?Yes, I arrived yesterday...What country are you from?Norway. You?From Quebec.Quebec? I don't know Quebec...Quebec ... near the Atlantic, next to Ontario, the Great Lakes...No, I don't know these places.Never mind then, I'm from Canada...Ah! Canada! Canada I know! So why you tell me you come from Quebec?Because, my first country is Quebec!Oh, you were born in Quebec and immigrated to Canada...No, no, I was born in Quebec and I stayed in Quebec...Oh, then your father is from. He approached the house and noted that the little had changed in the woman’s response to his projections. There was still a need, a barely concealed hunger, overlaid with frustration. He observed her from the door of her home office. The light of the screen played on the attractive geometry of her face. Her intelligent blue eyes betrayed tiredness and the firm set of her full lips indicated something else entirely — anger tempered by grief. Wakefulness presented some problems to the incubus,.