“That should keep you busy for quite a while, shouldn’t it?” the employee said while stamping my card and the books.I decided against telling he... it would take me a single day to read them all. I got a free tote bag to help take everything to the car.“Priest,” she said back in the car driving home, “I know you want a newer computer, how about we get you the newest model we can find. Your father makes enough money for me to splurge on myself, why don’t we splurge on you, instead.”“You’re the. Alaina leaned closer into him in their booth seat. “Why would they score based on how many peanuts you can eat during each hole? It’s not even golf at that point!”“Believe me, I know,” he said. “I was furious when that cheating asshole showed me the scorecards at the end. Everyone knows how to play elephant golf! The hell they do.”She giggled. “And that was it? You just lost and the dream ended?”“Well, not exactly,” Will said. “There was some kind of fast forward or something that happened, and. ”Blood and bile oozed from the dying man’s mouth as his childish lover tried to scramble to her feet to protect him. Gestas slammed his meaty fist into her face and knocked her to the floor. His heavy iron boots rained punishment as she tried feebly to protect her coiled abdomen. The high-pitched sounds of cracking ribs augmented the piteous, pain-filled shrieks from her mouth.Having subdued the woman, Gestas returned quickly to his original quarry, worried that the captive man had. “I am aware you have accepted a position as lecturer at the University of Vienna, yes.” He anticipated the explosion, yearned for the heat of her reaction. It was hard to keep the amusement from colouring his voice, though self preservation won. He loved her anger, partly because it reminded him of the open, the energetic young woman he had lost his heart to so long ago. It made him see that memory under the guise of the cold, the distant academic she had become. Each time anew it age him hope.