Everyone calls me Cassie, or Cass,’ I said weakly. I tried to remember if he had called me by my full name at Kate’s wedding but I doubted he had ...aid my name at all then. His smile was enigmatic. ‘Ah, but Cassie is a girl’s name. You’re a woman now,’ he said quietly. I blinked rapidly in astonishment. A woman. I felt almost light-headed. The words combined with his gentle tone, in that accent, sounded so seductive. ‘Maybe. But it is a lot of syllables,’ I joked. He laughed, a low rumble. I had found him inspirational. He was aman's man - a rugger player, for god's sake. I'd never known him apologisefor his sexuality, and I'd seen him embarrass and face down anyone whoattempted to make him feel ashamed. He was smart and sensitive. He knew howto handle himself. And I also knew he enjoyed painting his toe nails, andlanguishing in bubble baths with candles and champagne. I respected him, Iprobably loved him - god knows I had a lot more cause to love him than mostmembers of my. Iola grinned back. "He wanted to hog the covers but I finally got warm."Mom grinned back. "A lot of females lust for your brother. He needs to learn to share the covers and make enough room." Perhaps I need to sleep with him more often to teach him to share." You could do that." She grinned at both of us.I said, "Mom! It's not what you think!" Oh! What do I think?"Io blushed deeply but was smiling while I tried to think of something intelligent and not incriminating to say. I couldn't. I kept. The choppers climbed to 15,000 feet before crossing the border into Bolar and everybody got their paragliders ready. The big lake made an easy target to find, even with no moon, and the only island in the lake was obvious even before they put on their night-vision glasses. On command, all of the team jumped virtually simultaneously and they arrived on the roof of the villa the same way. The members of the team were very good at night work as the result of a lot of practice in the live-fire.