A long time ago, I was holding hands with her. The moon was full on a beautiful night, and she was looking exceptionally beautiful. We stopped walking... I took her other hand and we were looking deep into each other's eyes," he said stopping from time to time to keep his emotions in check."I just couldn't help myself, and she was obliging and we kissed so passionately. Our bodies were up against each other and my love was sincerely being expressed by our lips and our tongues." What happened. ." his voice caught in his throat as the realization hit him. "Took you long enough to catch on, Spartan," the jukebox crooned. "Have you even noticed your shackles?" With a start, Arion lifted his hands and stared at the markings on his wrists. The tattoos had changed somehow. The shackles were gone; in their place was a single, broken lock emblazoned on his right wrist. His arms felt lighter than they had since that day in Thermopylae. And in his chest, his heart raced. He felt his lungs fill. I shrugged. V1 had been near divorce after my affair with Sharon Long but it never was completed. “Of course not. Divorce, even if you are on amicable terms, is like having your body split down the middle and everything that makes you who you are scooped out of the cavity. Then you get sewed up and walk around pretending that everything is the same with you as it was. But it isn’t. It never is. If you are really fortunate, you find someone who fills that cavity with their love and you find a. From inside his coat he removed some cable ties and placed one on each wrist, drawing it tight but not to the point it cut off circulation. Sliding a second one through each he pulled her hands behind her and attached the second one to her opposing ankle from behind."Those aren't as good as the ones your Bobbies use but they'll do the trick. I don't wish to harm ya. You're not the one I'm after. Is he in there? Is she with him? Just nod, no talking, no screaming. He couldn't hear ya anyway,.