” “I’ve always been self conscious about them so that means a lot, Thank you.” I tell her unable to stop myself from blushing deeply.“You do...n’t see it but you’re actually really beautiful.” She tells me giving me quick kiss and draping an arm over me, “now go to sleep, I’m tired and we have homework to do tomorrow.” She says closing her eyes.“I love you.” I whisper before closing my eyes and falling asleep too.We spend Sunday doing our homework with our desks still pushed together so that our. The house needed a good cleaning and there were some things I had been meaning to leave in the poor box down to the church. If I was not going to go to work, I could at least get some work done at home.All day long, my thoughts returned to the pretty blonde. Why was she there each morning? Why did she never take the bus? Why did she always seem so happy? Where did she live? What did she do during the day? Was she, and did I even dare to think it, single? I had no business even contemplating. ”I took a step back, shocked. “What? How... ?”Aedan responded, tone irate. “Vander was injured. The First stabbed him before we went into the Fade. With no healer, and after being in the Fade for so long...”“He was dying,” Justice cut in. “He fought to defend the villagers trapped in the Fade, fought for justice. He would not have survived the blood loss. When I found myself in the real world, not the Fade, I ... helped. Together we could survive wounds that otherwise would have been mortal.. She also realized that most of Andrea's collection of tapes involved sadism and bondage of some kind, not just sex, but violent sex, degrading sex, sex which Vickie hated to admit to herself, she had found exciting at first.If Andrea had lied about or at least deliberately deceived her about the club, Vickie thought, what other things had she lied about as well?"I'm going to go make a phone call," she said. "The tape is cued to the part I think might be your sister. If it is Cindy, I think it.