” It was then she noticed the brush in his hand. Mother’s large sliver, antique brush. He raised it over her and she cried out at the first sti...ging smack. Missy watched entranced in the mirror as blow after blow became a light show. The flickering candlelight and the lightening silver flashes of the brush on her ever reddening skin. She thrashed and cried, the tears on her cheeks another glistening point, like crystal in the mirror. Moaning loudly, groaning in an agony that made her. I am convinced we will have it out of you by Friday..two days hence. That is the last day I will trifle with your conduct. After that, it is, as I said, out of my hands." He chafed again at this condemnation from this imperious woman. Guilt and remorse about the events that brought him here surfaced again. Along with thoseregrets, he felt a developing apprehension that was, in no small way,reinforced by his feeling of vulnerability sitting there in this ridiculous gown. "I am. Stealth tried to connect with his companion, but she would not answer. Damn, he growled beneath his breath as he moved into an unoccupied bedroom. He slammed his hand on the trigger that opened up the hidden doorway to the escape passages in the mansion. He moved with lightning speed through the twists and turns before finally coming out at the lowest level. Stealth stepped through the doorway to see another hybrid hunched in the corner. He could hear bones crunching as the leopard crossbreed. Hason, the brown fox, tried to show the depressed Benni some reason.The nine lingered in the Earthly Crater for a month and a half. Most of them wished to stay longer, but time was not on their side. They had to reach their destination in the Eastern Continent within twenty days and though it sounded like plenty of time, factoring certain obstacles, it turned out pretty short.“Leave her alone. I can’t believe she actually fell for a guy she knows nothing about”. Vars glowered.“Don’t be a jerk,.