She'd had some strangedreams, including a few that had been prophetic, but nothing like thebizarre nightmare she'd awakened from just now. Last night,...she'd foughta Feral Demon and the damned thing had bitten her! Of course, she'dslain it--eventually--but, by then, she'd already begun to feel sickand, concerned, she'd gone straight to bed. She was always troubledwhenever a demon of any kind managed to bite or claw her, because no onecould say with certainty what unexpected effects a demon's. If you want to be so contradictory.” She paused as if choosing her approach and opted for the direct. “But I don’t think that’s so.”“What do you think it is, then?”“Me.”“So it’s all about you.”We laughed. After a long minute in which she gathered her thoughts, she said, “With you it is. It should be. Because I threw you away and kicked you in the teeth and tried to destroy you without listening to you. Because I…took Phil’s side after he’d poisoned my mind against you with nasty hints and. "I never had amnesia. I came to on the bus and heard you all talking and Ijust wanted to give you a good scare."Before I knew it my face was turned the other way and my cheek was onfire. Diane's slap almost knocked me right off of the stool. "You prick!How dare you do this to me and my friends." A backhand across the othercheek turns me in the other direction. "You had me scared that we nearlykilled you and then what would we do if you never recovered and now youtell me it was all a joke." She. "Beth and Aaron had another glass of wine and went upstairs for another roundof lovemaking. The next morning, they attack the breakfast buffet withzest, stating that they had worked up a good appetite the night before._____As they drove back to Tallahassee, Beth pretended to sleep. She wasthinking about Aaron and his mom. She wondered was she being too hard onhim? Was Aaron what they would call a mama's boy? She thought back tothe relationship that Ken had had with his mom.Ken and his.