She ended up killing herself because she couldn’t deal with it.”“I could see how that could happen, but my friend managed to get through it, eve... though she got pregnant. She had an abortion.”“Wow. And she’s OK?”“I wouldn’t say ‘OK’ but I would say she’s working on being OK. She shakes like a leaf at any contact with a guy — even just holding hands.”“You’ve held her hand?”“Yeah, but it feels like it did when I was in kindergarten and we had to hold hands when we walked across the. Balthazar spent three hours in intense pain when he did not answer questions. It took the first 90 minutes to convince him he needed to be more forthright with his answers. We left him in the cell with the last meal of the day.Tomorrow night we would do it again after dissecting his answers, comparing them to what we knew and what the men had learned at Gitmo. What we did know was that more arrests and search warrants would be in the works for tomorrow.He also began to give us the military. " You know we were at the same school," I said taking a draw from mycigarette. "Know I don't really think I noticed you, do you have any pictures?" heasked. "Why?" I said nervously. "Just curious," he said. "Wait a minute," I said lifting the ashtray and depositing the halfsmoked ciggie in it I walked over to a small bookcase and looked for anovel finding the book in question I took out an old photo from thedustcover and walked back to the bed handing it to him "Which one are you?" he asked. And my, my, Zander, she is beautiful. Did you fall in love with this one?” Prestira asked, her tone a little too jealous for my liking. “I loved all of Alkandi’s incarnations, but I’ve never repeated my mistake. I will never be in love again.”“You fucked her.” Prestira mused. “I fucked you too.”A pained expression crossed her face, causing a ball of guilt to form in my stomach. “Alkandi never loved you the same way you loved her.” She said softly, “You’ve been paying for the unrequitedness of.