He remembered the pain, the divorce, all he had worked so hard to build over the years, gone in a flash. Now endless hotel rooms, endless meetings, ho...urs in airports, on airplanes. Glenn glanced back at the pretty woman across the room, her eyes met his for an instant, looked away. ________________________________________________ Janet just couldn’t stay in her room, her mind was screaming out for company, conversation. She slipped on her jacket, the same one she had worn in the boardroom. Miguel was stuck and so started selling coke to pay rent and expanded his business out to looking after 3 working girls and arranging tickets for shows. It was an interesting tale! So far from our friends and life living in a two up two down in Hertfordshire. I ended up asking why he was chatting with us. He said his girls were all working, and so he had a free night, and had enjoyed the fact hubby got him three drinks without once asking for anything in return. That we hadnt wanted anything. .. tied up right now. Which even be literally true, given that he’s at Fangtasia, a vampire bar in Shreveport, Louisiana. Not in this universe. In an alternate one where vampires like me can live openly as such. In case you overlooked that detail ... I got turned in such a world.“Oh, meet Jessica Hamby. She’s a brand-new vampire, dropped off by her Maker at Fangtasia and handed over to me for the present. Jessica, this is Vivien and Violet Harmon. Vivien is the wife of Dr. Ben Harmon, whom you. . whatever works. You have nothing to lose. If you can't tell each other what you want, this relationship is already over."I'll try it, Sharon told herself. After all, what do I have to lose?The next day at work, Sharon closed her office door for an hour, and wrote everything she could think of to Tyke's e-mail address. She wanted him to know all of her feelings. The following day, his response was waiting.'Fuck off, ' he wrote. Short and sweet. Tyke had never been much for prose.Sharon wasn't.