“Hey.” She said with a smile. “Do you have any plans for tonight?”“Not that I can think of, why?” Maria asked.“I was just wondering if y...u wanted to come over for a few drinks and, I don’t know just hang out.”“Absolutely, sounds like fun. I just have to finish up here for a couple of hours and then I’ll head over.” They both smiled before getting up from the couch. Maria went into her office as Olivia left the studio and returned to her car.--Later that night, around 8:00, Maria pulled her. "And you figure if we replace her baby, you can leave and she'll be just as happy. Is that it?" The wizard shrugged. "Hey, who killed that shade?" I gritted my teeth. "We both did, but you created it in the first place. But I get your point." I closed my eyes in annoyance, and uttered a word of Power to draw Merlin's sperm straight to my fertile ova. The Curse used to do that as soon as sperm entered my pussy, but now I had to choose to get pregnant. Again. The first time I got. I spotted a table with a lone woman, her dress telling me that she was part of the wedding crowd and I asked her if she would mind me joining her at her table.Her name was Jane and she was waiting for her husband Nick to come back from the bar with their drinks. It turned out Nick was a distant relative and knew very few of the other guests and were stopping the night at the hotel.Nick eventually came back to the table with their drinks, quite a pleasant man and very chatty, just like his wife. First, the skin melt was still hot, and second, his new hyperawareness was reminding him to move only when necessary."Only once, and I paid dearly for the mistake. I don't think you've bled all of the stellar civilization out of me yet, but I'm optimistic." Ah, the sound of bravado," Benni said. "Tomorrow's cuts will be deeper." He wants to know if the heart of a knife fight is genius or madness," Kay said."The genius of a fight is knowing when to let the madness take over, to allow your world.