I had been with only one girl one time-guess I was not a Don Juan during high school. I had taken a job selling magazines. They would put us in a van ...and drive us out to some other town and drop us off for the day and we would go door to door selling magazines subscriptions. End of the day they would pick us up, sometimes we would go home and sometimes we stayed in motels. I was hoping to get lucky with one of the girls on our team. It was about the third week for me to be doing this. I got. The look and the hug said it all. Reluctantly we stood back and stopped when we saw the startled look of the Coffee shop owner - a friend of us all.I left to take the coffee back to my other half who still had about six hours of the day left to work.As I got home my phone pinged with a message from my other half. - ‘Hello, love - Julie just came in but I’m too busy to talk or spend time with her - I’ve told her to come around later and we’ll give her super tonight - please ‘look after’ her till. " I interrupted, waving her comments off. "Whatever..."The bagel finally popped up, so I pulled a knife from the drawer and started spreading cream cheese all over the bagel's crusty, golden brown surface. "Is the coffee fresh?" I asked, nodding toward the pot."I made it an hour ago, so it should be okay." Thanks," I said as I poured myself a cup and carried my bagel and coffee out to the dining room table. I took a bite out of the bagel and washed it down with a sip of coffee. Rolling my. “Maybe. I ... I need to talk to Avery about this. She probably knows something about whatever we’re looking at, and—”“You think Avery knows about this ... underworld?”“She knows a lot of stuff she doesn’t like to share, cause she thinks the knowledge is dangerous.” Wincing, Clara looked down and put her hands in her pockets. “You may have noticed, talking with Jacob and all.”Jack winced as well. Yeah, Avery was just one of those types of people.“So, if the Gauntlet is here, then that means this.