’ Melissa winced in sympathy. Her friend had been trying to get pregnant for nearly a year now, but her husband worked on the oilrigs and was often ...way for weeks at a time. It was time to lighten the mood. ‘So when’s he back?’ she asked, even though she knew exactly when Steve would return. This was a game they played on a daily basis. She grinned. ‘Two weeks, three days, two hours and, ooh—’ Gemma consulted her watch ‘—seventeen minutes. I can’t wait.’ Her grin widened. ‘Phone sex just isn’t. She stood there shaking from the reaction of this body. Thadius had never expected to have so many problems controlling the feelings it generated and the fear it felt so easily. He heard a faint chuckling and the cold voice of Mayong issued from The Watcher. “Can’t fool those guys for even second. Better be careful ... old man. Their are others on your path that will see you for what you are as well.”Now The Watcher spoke, “Mistress, he has freed me to converse with you now. We need to be. My hope was that once I introduce Nathan to the joy of breaking a girl's will like I had just done, he would embrace it enough that he wouldn't want to give it up.Before going back to the house to get some sleep, I returned Rosalinde to her regular aggressive and dominating self, but didn't blank her memory of the event. She was very confused over what had happened, and was a bit scared of me the next morning, but yet part of her had wanted something like that, and I knew she would never be. They saw each other rarely, maybe once or twice a year on average, although he thought it had been at least a year since their families had last gotten together. It wasn’t like the two kids had any kind of history. In fact, in the past, Eric and Rachael showed little interest in each other because they had so little in common. They never really developed any kind of a connection because there was no reason to; nothing to connect over.So, what the heck was she looking at? What was grabbing her.