The food was cooking in the oven and mother and daughter were relaxing. Krystal handed her mother her final gift. She opened it and saw a very expensi...e pair of Jimmy Choo stiletto heels that likely must have cost $500 or more. She turned to Krystal, who had the widest grin on her face. ‘Like them, Mom?’ Krystal asked, thrilled by the reaction. ‘Darling, they’re gorgeous, but they’re way beyond your budget, I can’t let you …’ Krystal stopped her. ‘My bonus paid for most of it and I’d been. “It most certainly has” she agreed. “My thoughts keep returning to the woman on the bed and now I feel…” she hesitated and looked lost, “I don’t know what I feel. As the poet says - a frightful craving tortures me incessantly, as if some serpent stung continually within”.“There are desensitisation techniques” Katya offered, but Maria shook her head.“They don’t work” she said dismissively. “You know that” she added clutching Katya’s hand. “Watch”!Both turned back to the screen as it suddenly. He looked to his left and saw his teammate, Andrew Carrick, skating up the middle of the ice, with his neighbor, Vladislav Agarfield, covering him.He saw an opening in between the two of them, and faked a bank shot off the wall, fooling his girlfriend. As she tried to pin him on the boards, he made his way around her and skated with all his speed to the net. He faked a shot, went backhand, forehand, and shot.Boy, he loved the sport of hockey, whether it was the team spirit the sport always. Speaking of which..." Adrienne glanced to the doorway where the slender brunette with smoky-gray eyes entered in.Misty Madsen came straight over and grinned at Adrienne. "So you FINALLY dragged your boyfriend into having lunch with us, A.D.!"Adrienne wrapped her arm around my waist. "Just you and a bunch of hot babes. Just like old times, huh, Tiger?" Wow..." I let out a long whistle and folded my arms behind my head as I lay back across the couch and stared admiringly at the radiantly.