Phil replied that my cream wouldn’t have given her any protection, to which we all laughed. . I picked up Sharon’s bottle of wine and took a large... swig out of it before she snatched it back, saying buy your own. Before standing up and saying she was going before we got any ideas, as this was getting out of hand, with that she started to walk awayI then ran after Sharon and asked Sharon if she would buy me some cider if I paid for it, before returning to the group with Sharon. She then announced. Is Tom still changed?" Yes, Mom. I don't know if it is permanent but he did say he loved me.I will love Tom no matter what."Midori knew in her heart how much Gabrielle loved Tom, and this callproved it, because she was risking her job if it was ever discovered."I know, Gabrielle. Thank you for updating Stuart and I." How are you, Dad, and Shannon?" We are well. Thank you, Gabrielle, for asking."*****A few moments later, after getting off the phone with Gabrielle, Midoriturned to her husband.. "Well - I don't believe it! Disgusting! It really is disgusting. Have you no shame to lie around like that in a public place, young woman?"It took a few moments for the shades of sleep to disperse and Gwen looked up to see that a group of people, three women and a man (to whom she took an instant dislike) were standing looking down at her."What's the problem - you've lost me, I'm afraid?" she replied."Lying there naked in full view of anyone who might pass by - that's the problem, my good young. One that had just tried to kill him.She was breathtakingly beautiful he saw, now that she wasn't trying to disembowel him. Long, curling lashes framed her eyes. Her face was slightly round, like a girl barely out of her teens, with a cute nose and full, black lips.Hunter or prey. He reminded himself as he raised the stick to drive it into her chest. He was alive only because he had gotten lucky. Those claws looked wicked sharp, easily capable of scooping his guts out like ice cream. And she was.