Lani considered. ‘It’s more that she won’t let herself think that. She won’t get her hopes up.’ She tilted her head to look up at him. ‘It...��s a weird self-esteem thing, I guess, but Dee doesn’t think she’s good enough for him.’ Dom snorted. ‘Well, she’s wrong. He’s not good enough for her.’ It was a cardinal rule to harass one’s teammates off the ice, even if they weren’t around to appreciate it, Dom thought. He was only adhering to the code. ‘No one is,’ Lani said in stout defense of her. He came striding towards us with a beaming smile of welcome on his expressive face, his eyes glittering with a powerful lust. Emma stopped in her tracks, tugged me towards her and whispered in my ear “he’s black”I was stunned, surely she’s not racist, if she starts getting funny with him, she's out of here faster than a kick in the ass can carry her. I snapped “Yes he is… and he's my boyfriend”.“I’ve never been with a black guy, is it true what they say?” she whispered.“Ask him. Emma, this. To me, Alan Blanchard didn’t look like he did when he was alive, but more like a wax statue. I’d never seen someone in this state before, so I had no idea what an embalmed body looked like until I saw Kara’s dad. We stood by the side of the coffin for a few minutes, then went back to sit down. As the guests filed by the coffin, they stopped to offer condolences to Kara and her mom, and then paid their respects to Kara’s dad.Over the course of the next three hours, it seemed that most of Kara’s. The slimeball was out of business, and once he was down there were others who also accused him of breaking his promises. There was something else, too. Some of those people were underaged females. It seemed that his next production would have quite a different audience.Okay, it had been personal. I never claimed that I was an absolutely good person.Meanwhile, we had negotiated another deal. Surprisingly, there seemed to be no hard feelings from the other companies, that we had caused one of the.