"Sarah heard the words inside her head and knew that Ben was still physically back in their cave. A sudden worry had her heart racing, as she realised...he might not be able to transport himself in the same way he had carried her and the children."Are we really at Aetherkraal? How are you going to get here?"she sent her thoughts."I thought I would just walk," said Ben, appearing right in front of her."Ben! How did you do that?" she asked, jumping to her feet to hug him."I just concentrated on. On the way, Eric Johnson kept on pumping me for details about why Skip was having me tag along with him."Come on, Eric, I've told you all I know. If you want to know more, ask Skip yourself." Fat chance he'd even talk to a lowly scrub like me," he complained. "Why you, Porter? Are you the anointed successor?" Oh, give it a rest, would ya? I don't know, I don't care. I just want to play the game, you know?" Maybe he don't like black soccer players. Maybe he's got a thing for your skinny ass.. . please." "Dammit, Robert, I am falling in love with you!" she said. "Now you know. This is where you tell me that it can't work, and that maybe our working together is a mistake, and I get moved to another office somewhere, right?" Robert looked at her for a long moment. Then a smile broke across his face. "Absolutely not! Where would I ever find an assistant as efficient and as good as you. Much less one as sexy and beautiful! Betty honey, you aren't going anywhere. You are staying right. So far, though, nothing had panned out yet duringhis past week of job hunting, which was why Evan decided to put in anapplication at Hidden Desires- a lingerie store that had just opened upa few weeks ago.Evan's motivations were based on more than just making money, or eventhe fact that it was a shop that typically sold sexy undergarments toattractive young women, though. Rather, Evan had his own secret desire-he often fantasized about BEING a woman, and had even done some shoppingof his own at.