Anyone. Just NOT THEM.Yet the next moment, the steam cleared briefly just long enough for me to see one of them perfectly. I saw her tall, voluptuous ...orm wrapped in her tight, thin robe. I saw the blue cast to her skin, and the fall of coppery hair. I caught the intensely violet eyes even from this distance. It was all I could do not to whimper in terror.Velqui slavers!There were two of them, carrying scanners. They were searching all the compartments. Occasionally I would see one disappear. We hadn’t even held hands for the last month and weren’t about to break it then, as badly as I needed the physical contact with her. Even though I had fun teasing her, the last month had been the most difficult in my life, and I knew the next one wasn’t going to get any easier.The Pasco airport is small compared to most, but the security rules are still stringent. She needed to check in early and after going through the metal detector, we couldn’t be together while she waited for her flight. We. We can find out which of the chicks Dante is visiting on any given night." Lucas said."Okay, you guys work up the entry plan, I'll try figure out what to do with him after we get him." It was obvious they knew more about assaulting Dante's hide out than I did. I had to live with what happened to him, so I was concerned about that."Do we plan on you coming along," the older Swamp Thing operative asked."You bet your ass I'm coming along. You are working up the plan, because it is mostly your. No explanations are possible without you lying to me. So make a few phone calls and get out of my house!”“You must want to know why…”I walked into the kitchen a poured myself another cup of coffee. “Leave your rings on the side table. Keep the rest of your crap. While you’re at it, I wonder what you fucking mother would think of you now?”From the next room, I think I heard a sob. I didn’t care. I reloaded for my next shot.“If the doorbell rings answer it. It will be for you!”Yep, there was that.