“Why have you kept that from me?”“Lori, please. I’ve not been with anyone but you since we met. I have only been with you… you are the only ...woman I want.”Lori folded her arms and stared ahead.It was many minutes before she spoke. “I feel cheated.”Kiel's heart was hurting for his wife. He understood some of what she was feeling, but he had no idea what to do.They completed the drive in silence. Kiel figured he’d blown any chance of sex that night, so he got the key out to the cabin and unpacked. A number of sites had been reported from space as likely cities, long deserted, and now overgrown. The hope was that one of these cities could be made habital again thereby speeding up the colony process and possibly some advanced technology could be found that may be used to make contact with Earth.It was during the celebration for the fifth year of the colony at the unremarkably named settlement City that the military sprang a major surprise by relaunching the Warehouse, which they had taken. "No one is going there, we can tell the police and let them handle it,"Dan said."Police-? What the hell-? Sending them there to get their bodiesswapped around-" Ken stopped speaking when he saw Rick's face."I am going alone, I can get my body back and make all of this right,and no one has to lose their bodies," Rick told them all, "now give methe address." You are not going alone," Dan told him."It won't matter, she is going to Jump me, into a Joker or a Nat orinto myself, I just don't want. She'd written him every day when he was in boot camp and had been so excited when he'd been sent to Quantico two years ago. It was only an hour away and she could see him almost every weekend.They'd been involved since she was sixteen and she was twenty-one now. The stammering boy she'd met had become a man, with a man's confidence and sense of purpose. And in the last six months, she'd passed every important day waiting and hoping. She knew Jethro wanted to marry her—she could see it in his.
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