Once she found it she started pulling it. Herbeautiful face started to fall away - her eyes sunk in, the previouslyfull lips, slightly parted, falling... away. Her face came off with oneswift motion revealing a youthful male face under it. She tossed themask over to the pile of stuff on the ground and began to fumble withsomething on her back. She must've found what she was looking for,because as she pulled down her spine, the impossibly smooth skin ofMarquess Dumont began to fall away. The man. “You literally nursed me back to health. Even though you were mad at me for killing Shemhazau, you still chose to spy on TanaVesta for me. Shemhazau isn’t dead, by the way. He’s in Shelly’s head.”“What?” Angela tried to take a step back again, but Lyden held onto her. “But… how?”“I don’t understand it all either, but I’ve spoken to him in Shelly’s Mens Mundi.” Lyden met her eyes for a moment, then glanced back over his shoulder at the bed. Somehow he managed to keep his mind blank as he came to. Notice the texture of your skin, the temperature.Focus on the sensations in your cheeks. Focus on the sensations in yourfingers. Let your awareness move back and forth. As you watch yourselfexplore in the girly mirror, notice how girly it is to begin to exploreyour own body. You're feeling so good about this. Your lower cheeks ...your upper cheeks, all feeling so wonderful. Now move up to yourforehead. Sensual stroking. Giving yourself pleasure, and feeling goodabout it. As you continue, begin. All the trips he took, he lied to me and told me he was at some medical convention. He has done nothing but lie to me for over a year.I hear Brian walking down the steps and into the living room. I quickly put his planner back on his desk. I quickly walk into the kitchen. "Darla, where were you when I was walking into the kitchen?"I take a deep breath. I look at him, wondering if he saw me walking out of his office. I think of something to tell him."Oh, I used the bathroom. Remember, you still.