‘Is that all you can think of right now?’ She doesn’t dare hold back any of her anger. ‘Whoa, hang on a sec,’ Mason replies waves his hands ...p and winces immediately afterward. ‘Serves your stupid ass right.’ He laughs for a second. ‘Thanks for saving my ass back there and fixing me up now. How the hell did you get me in here?’ ‘Believe me it wasn’t easy,’ she answers looking herself over. ‘Where are you hiding all those muscles?’ Mason asks grabbing her legs to pull her into him. ‘Wha—’ ‘How. As she was smoking at the end of the driveway she saw n expensive four sedan pull up to the house next door, allegedly Mrs Higgins.Mrs Higgins stepped out of the door with a suitcase and went quickly into the house with a friendly wave to the Deputy. She seemed a bit nervous that there was a police car in her neighborhood, even more so than some of the looky loos poking their heads out of curtains and blinds at the cop car. This kind of thing didn’t happen on Rosemary Drive, it would be. Reaching into his car, he pulled out a small suitcase and tossed it into the Corolla’s back seat. Then he locked her car and headed inside. He knocked on the door and a few seconds later Tina opened it.“My, don’t you look dashing!” she said, smiling.“Thank you. Think this will do? I hope she’s not expecting a tuxedo,” he replied.Tina shook her head. “No, I told her it wasn’t like that. I said you’d be in a nice suit and she needed a nice sexy dress.”Jack smiled and nodded. “That sounds about. But that was still hundreds of years in the future, assuming that New Eden even survived the sun's inevitable nova. She desperately hoped it would; the thought of all life ending everywhere chilled her to the bone.'I still have much to do, ' Béla thought to herself, not realizing that wasn't her own thought, but knowing that getting her sisters to New Eden was only part of what was needed. Earth – and her dear friend, Frank, as well as her lover, Jake, pulled at her, deep inside. She was.