Mike was oblivious as he was busy kissing Patty on the neck, but Patty and I made eye contact and she looked to be blushing. She nodded towards my hit...ched up skirt and I pushed Tom’s hand away and lowered my skirt. I told Tom, to behave and wait till we get home. He just smiled and licked his fingers which really turned me on. If we weren’t in the nightclub I would have thrown him to the floor and fucked his brains out. The Uber arrived and we all piled in. Patty got in the back with me and Tom. Amina’s expression changed slowly as he spoke, and when he got to the part about Sylvia feeling the echo of a vala, she sagged visibly as if struck, and would have fallen if Erik had not caught her and lowered her to the ground.“He wouldn’t have,” she murmured as Erik set her back against a shelf and knelt beside her. Eyes wide, her face was a picture of shock, her beautiful features decidedly pale. Erik had never seen her so out of countenance; it was alarming to say the least. “He wouldn’t. As she walked back to her desk she winked at him.After lunch she found an excuse to call him to her desk, which was more walled off from the prying eyes walk down the hall outside their office. She had learned his favorite color and bought a form fitting blouse when she found out everyone else in the office was taking the day off for various reasons. James pulled a chair over because she'd said she wanted to discuss in detail an overdue project they were working on. A couple minutes after. "You smug little bitch. I ought to smash you for what you did to me. I ought to smash all of you," he said, his raging eyes taking in Alida and Raoul who glared at him imperiously."You have interrupted the worship service," Alida said, her voice hard and edged with steel."Crap!" Ed retorted. "You're a bunch of phonies and crooks!" What?" Alida asked, arching an eyebrow."You heard me!"Ed turned to his wife."Marion, I got mixed up with Lorraine because I wanted to find out about this damn cult.