It was the place where those impudent brats had entrapped you with their loathsome trickery, this specially sealed room of roughly hewn obsidian pilla...s and clusters of magic crystals forming upon the walls. You remembered that they were once a pristine cyan blue, flowing with latent mystical energy, naturally imbued with the power to stop your powerful evil aura from permeating out of the chamber. Now, they had all been corrupted from what might have been years of decay, significantly weakened. He then looked at the embers and blaze, it calling to him. He approached it, nearly sitting down on the furniture on instinct, but something felt off.He only need one look at himself to see he was dirty and stained, he would only muddy the beautiful furniture. It didn't matter whether it be magic or coincidence, he wasn't going to ruin furniture without knowing who was here.So he sat on his knees, hands by the growing orange glow as a sigh escaped him.Then hands went across his abs, gripping. A man who I’d loved enough to marry, spent my life with and raised a family with. And now Alvita was asking me if I felt the same way about Jason. Or would her son always come a distant second place to my husband and family? And that question scared me to death. Because there was an inconvenient truth I’d buried in a little corner in the very depths of my brain. And that inconvenient truth was that I did love Jason. And not only did I love him, but I was also in love with him, with those. “Firstly, I was...” she paused, then looked aside. “I was ugly. Not just because I was a dude. I love dudes. But I was an ugly dude, you know?” She nodded, slightly. Merton stepped forward and almost tripped over her own feet. She tottered over and knelt down beside the bed. She took Julia’s hand, squeezing. The feeling of Julia’s soft fingers against Merton’s new fingers was enough to send lightning bolts of erotic sensation crackling along her spine. “You might not want to be a girl. But.