I felt as good as I had in weeks.Mom's doctor must have shown up while I was in the shower. They were sitting at the table when I went into the kitche.... He smiled at me."Looking good, Half Pint."He was the only man I knew who could make me blush.Darcy rang the front doorbell a minute later. We went out to the car and she slid over next to Bill, leaving most of the passenger seat for me. Bill told me I looked good, too.We chatted on the way over to the school. Darcy told me she'd gotten five. Once again the image of Ayan lying naked and next to her flashed in her mind, and tears started rolling immediately.She went under the shower and started rubbing and rinsing every part of her body. She felt disgusted from what she thought may have happened last night. Kasthuri came out half an hour later. Ayan was still asleep. She had covered herself with one of his gowns.She tiptoed outside to the lounge and thanked God for finding the rest of her clothes lying on the lounge floor. She picked. Before Kayla could say anything, Chloe handed her and a blindfold and whispered, "Time for your birthday present.You're in luck! It just happens that this weekend we have a visitor from another club. On such occasions, there's a special ceremony we like to call 'The Great Introduction'.Since first impressions are so important, we go out of our way to make the experience as memorable as possible for our guest of honor. Normally we draw straws to see who gets to be the greeter. However, since. It would be nice not to come so often to the hospital so often. The staff were all wonderful, people like Dr. Terrance and Alia tried very hard to keep her informed, to make her comfortable, to work around a rule or two if it helped. But it was a hospital, with sterile white hallways and sheets, the hydraulic beds and that antiseptic smell that you simply couldn’t escape. Perhaps a hospice would do some good for her, too. Perhaps if she were in a place where death was prepared for, instead of.