I just want to be comfortable and spend as much time as I can with you and our daughter."The doctors had done all they could, and she resigned herself...to the fact that this would mean her death.I took her home. She was a shell of her former self. She had lost a lot of weight, and her glorious mane of raven-black hair was just now growing back. She seemed so frail, so weak. So unlike the vibrant woman I was used to seeing.But her smile never changed. The look in her eyes told me how much she. Cordelia watched the second group as it waited outside the closet. About a second before the door closed, Cordelia and Kelly looked each other in the eyes. Their gazes seemed to lock.For Cordelia, it was a very strange experience. The elevator door suddenly seemed to be closing more slowly, and she had the very uncomfortable thought that Kelly was using her and her friends as guinea pigs. But that couldn’t be right. Kelly had promised to follow immediately after them. And then the door edge cut. “Humor me,” she says in the same tone, and now I feel happier; they speak to each other equally. “Aren’t you going to feel like a damn fool if he does? When he does?”“Oh, hell, girl, all right,” he says. “Double-blind. I’ll ask the questions, tech’ll be outside, soundproof room so he can’t hear, but he’ll read the tapes. Damn pain in the ass, it all has to be coordinated, but I’ll do it. That do you?”“Yes!” she says in a big explosion of air. “Irving, you’re going to be—”He will not let her. I made small talk the rest of the way downstairs. I noticed both girls sniffing the air a bit, and I apologized for not showering after my workout, in my haste to get them breakfast, that is.Mentally, I was wondering if the smell was turning them on or off. Theoretically anything I did with them should trigger little spikes of lust in their brains.I introduced them to Kasumi. I don't think they quite knew how to react to her. She was beautiful and kind and practically radiated an aura of.