At that moment, the dizziness that Dey felt had nothing to do with drugs. She felt lighter than air, and as fragile as an egg shell. Then Loki’s han...ds caressed her and she wanted to lean into him so badly. She closed her eyes and shuddered slightly.[I love you, ] she thought.She had never said those words before. And now felt like both the worst and the best time to have said it – dripping in the blood and guts of a monster, buck naked in an alien cruiser, being dragged to who knows fucking. ."It was significant that the first and only person she even consideredcalling was Walt. Not the police, who would have to be called eventually.Her fingers were already punching his number and his customarily gruff"good morning" already in her ear before she'd been quite aware of whatshe'd done, who she called, or what she'd planned to say."Grace. What's the matter. Is something wrong?" Walt, you've got to come down to the Blue Cat as quickly as you can." Grace, what's wrong?" Please Walt. I. Lunch or dinner?”“Dinner. Central, it’s downtown.”“I’ll make a reservation. Eight?”“Nine, please.”I was prepared to forego wine, after all, I was representing the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Thomassa smiled up at our waiter, who obviously recognized her — he said, “Old Montgomery?”“Double it.”I said, “Me too. What is it?”“Bulleit rye, orange bitters, sweet vermouth.”Tasty. And Central was within walking distance of my hotel — the Renaissance Montgomery. No designated driver. Tony asked me to dance several times and I knew what he was looking for and by the fourth or fifth dance I decided to take a chance on him. We used the Quality Inn on Westin and 43rd. He knew my story and why I was playing around. It was on our third or fourth date when he started in with a bunch of macho bullshit about making Frank cuckold, about being more of a man than Frank was that I started feeling uneasy with him. That and I sensed that he was lying when he talked about his own.