It's tainted. We can hunt more meat, but me ... I couldn't eat it, after they touched it," she said."Ok, they can eat it," I replied and started drivi...ng away.As I drove, I watched in the mirror as someone started running after us. I couldn't tell if it was a man or woman, but it was small, it could have been a teenager for all I knew. Going over the hill, I traveled at a leisurely pace until I reached the next hill. Going over the hill, I stopped and climbed out. Looking in, I said, "No. I've seen what he does to females. He can't be serious about any of them." No, he hasn't been serious about any of them." Aphrodite stepped closer to the free standing mirror, her hand moving across the surface even as her eyes grew hazy and distant. "But there are reasons for Hunter's actions, reasons he will tell you if you but ask the question. Your future is not set, Mirage. It splinters and changes with each thought that races through your incredibly active mind. With that, I can not help. “Angie, listen to me, listen to me,” I said. She stopped struggling.“You have to be more careful with your arm. If you knock that cast against something, it’s really going to hurt. Slow down a bit, okay?”“Okay. I hit it this morning and it really hurt. I forgot,” said Angie.“That’s a good girl.”“When will my arm get better? I want to take this off,” said Angie.“It’s going to take a while – I mean weeks. In the meantime, your cast is like a big Band-Aid. You know how you have to leave a Band-Aid. “A-are you sure you don’t want to try seduction?”For a brief second, I considered it. Not that I said that to her. No, I was still too busy gaping and wondering if I GPSed the correct address. I’d known Dimitri Ryne was a beloved international artist, his name commonly passed around top tier exhibitions, but I hadn’t known the extent of his success. I hadn’t known he was loaded.Iron gates resurrected around an acre of land. Two diverging paths wended around a stone fountain disabled for the.