I’d pick up benefits today and be on half salary until January 1st, then we shook hands and I drove him back to the ramp where a company Gulfstream ...as waiting to take him back to Virginia, and that was, like I said, that. I was gainfully employed again, and very happy about it. I was free to run. Again. Now I had a few people to tell, so I drove over to Sam’s place, hoping he’d be there and not in Las Vegas – but then again he’d said he wanted me there as a witness. He lived in a sprawling –. “Another unique thing about this curse is that it was not cast over a distance, but passed into me at the contact of Alilia’s fist with my face. The immense power of the curse is not floating about us, it is entirely within me. I felt its power leap from my body to yours when it saved your life. Now, the main difference between a spell and a curse is that the curse is less specific about how something is to occur, and they work by making a simple copy of certain parts of the mind of the caster,. Pick it up and lick it clean. Nobody, Matthew. Absolutely nobody will ever find out what you're going to do tonight."I couldn't move."I'm not a patient girl, Matthew. You know this. I won't pick it up for you. You have to do that yourself, Matt. Time, Matthew. Time is running out."I leaned forward and took her right foot into my mouth engulfing her toes at once. My essence had grown cold on that wooden floor. It was sticky now. I was surprised by the taste of my goodness. I cleansed each part. I sorta gazed around. Between Ashley's attack and this guy out of my past I was a bit stunned.I had to admit seeing him after all this time set my heart racing. I'd had a crush on him. But when he'd left I'd figured I'd never see him again. One more loss to deal with.Not that I'd forgotten him. Oh no! It hurt, too, but there'd been another, bigger hurt. I'd talked about him with Andrews in one of our sessions, how I'd felt toward him. She'd called it transference, or something, trying to.