I told her maybe a little and started unloading the car. Even though it was December, it was still warm in Houston. I never even thought about how my...wardrobe had changed in the time I had been gone until her comment. After everything was unloaded Mom told me to put on something decent before we went out to dinner. I found some jeans to slip on and we headed out to Orleans for some shrimp. That night I went to bed with no sex for the first time in a long time. The next day, Mom had to go to. "That brightened her up no end and she beamed at him."Come with me, Casanova," she said grabbing his hand. "It's not far and I'm sure the police won't grudge us a bit more free parking." A true Scottish lass!" Yup!"It was indeed only five minutes away and two minutes later they were struck dumb by the quantity and beauty of the rings they were shown."Do you have any preferences, my Dai?" she asked almost timorously."No, my darling. Your ring: your choice."In the end she narrowed it down to. .."I do have something to say, your majesty," Eliona finally answered. "This trial is a sham. Even if this loss had been my fault, by my rights I still have more battles to prove myself before you can legally strip my title. And Gregory... If I wouldn't sleep with you before, what makes you believe I would ever surrender my body to you after you let those people die? You're scum!" Perhaps I am, but you are the one who will have to live with the loss. Tavel and Nord lying dead in front of you. I might as well have been watching at orgy in a porn movie.It was really hot, but as usual I felt like an outsider. A lot of people had told me I was good-looking, but I never really felt like I was. Especially not at the gym, surrounded by all those incredible guys.I felt kind of invisible, actually. I always kept to myself, didn't talk to anyone, just did my workout and left. Knowing that I was being anti-social didn't help -- I was too shy to do anything else. The friends I had were from.