He took a step closer to her and put his hands on her waist. She sucked her breath in through her teeth and Drew grinned. ‘Thank you, Mina. For ever...thing. Dinner was fantastic and you’re so smart, especially when it comes to my brother.’ Drew paused and shook his head with a rueful smile. ‘I don’t know how you do it.’ She smiled. ‘It’s a gift.’ ‘Yes, you are.’ Her smile disappeared and she looked away. ‘It’s getting late. I should go.’ ‘It’s only nine. Come watch a movie with me.’ Without. ’ ‘Stacey, you know I would have always made sure you had my new address and phone number if anything ever changed.’ ‘Well, I’m sorry. Now I’m really sorry,’ she added, hugging me. ‘Anyway,’ I continued, ‘what’s your story? Why are you renting out your second bedroom?’ ‘Oh, well, my last roommate was a total flake. She skipped out on me with no notice. She didn’t even pay her final month’s rent. That’s why I put ‘no flakes’ in my ad,’ she laughed. ‘I’m still paying off my school loans, and. He was trying to slow his speed to a crawl.Necro faked a yawn and blasted Tempus to the other end of the corridor."Did you really think your antiquated powers would even work on me?" Heraised his hand again, ready to blast him into oblivion."Rolling shield!" I got in the path in the nick of time, but I wasthrown against the wall by the sheer force of the blast. My shieldcollapsed. He was going to be much tougher than I had thought. I neededall the power I could get, and more. I thought quickly.. She required two shots. I took the other when she came to sniff around on the newly dead female.That was it for the easy part. The other females had located me by now, and even though I'm sure they had no idea how I was doing it they were surely going to pin the trouble on me and ask questions after they'd made me stop moving. They came toward me at a trot. It did wonders for my concentration and marksmanship, but they also required two rounds each.The lions had fucked up my plans completely..