And I believe you responded by saying I shouldn’t be so sure about that. Was that before or after you noticed my ring?”“I didn’t notice it unt...l after because I wasn’t really looking. And by then, I’d already committed.”“Backing out would have been OK,” I said.“I can’t welsh on a bet. But why take me up on it? And why say it was ‘tame’?”“I’m a flirt and basically incorrigible.”“And your wife puts up with that?”I smirked, “You have NO idea what you walked into.”“Huh?”“My WIVES know, and they. How inconvenient that he was related to The Deathless One.Even with his eyes closed, the world was tinged with red. "Let me die," he prayed to no one in particular. "Please! Let... me... die."Nick heard a distant banging on the front door. There was shouting and yelling. Wood split with force that made all the walls shake. Nick heard a gunshot ring out and a final scream.Footsteps came barreling down the hall and his door was kicked in. The light from the hallway tortured his dried eyeballs and. The school year started, the days became cooler and fall was in the air.Lane continued living with Joyce as always but with him out of schooland not seeming ready to find any kind of suitable employment she knewcontinuing on as is was pretty much a moot point that now made littlesense. He?d started sweeping up the errant leaves on the drive and thewalks. She enjoyed the help but to be honest, she had the money to hireher work done, Lane had been there just there to finish college. Shedidn?t. “Well you know, you’ve never enough, just when you think you have something crops up, like a bill for the car.” She said. “Yeah, at least with Charlie he could always find a punter for you,” I said.“Oh exactly, that’s what I miss about him,” she said.The door bell rang. I answered it. Two guys, two stunningly handsome black guys. I let them in.“Monika, this is Jamal, and this is Mike.” I said introducing them both. “Hi,” she said, clearly now out of her comfort zone.“Hey babe, lets dance a.