"I'd like to hang on to you," she gave me a quick squeeze, "but if Dad does manage to get the good CAP score I think he deserves, I'll transfer you to... him if that's what you both want."She smiled her pleasure, then frowned slightly. "How will you hold on to Siân?" She and I have already talked about getting a joint pod together. Sharing pods. Sharing concubines as well I guess. Having a single household with two sponsors in. Apparently it's quite allowed." Ah. Oh." Mum paused. "What a good. For a man I definitely had a great butt. Partly, because I spendhours on the stair machine and doing squats partly, because I was justlucky. The stair machine also made sure I had fantastic legs, especiallywhen I was wearing heels.The past couple of days Steve and I had hooked up for sex on a number ofoccasions. Last night, while we were out dancing with our groups- Lisaand Sarah, had told Steve and I, that Lisa was going to have a sleepoverin mine and Sarah's room. This meant that Steve. Harper's eyes were huge."Please," Lucian said. "You must understand."Harper crawled up against Lucian, making his naked, glowing body slidealong bare skin. His wild hair and blushing face made him lookcompletely vulnerable."Tell me," Harper said, smiling as his fingers cleared the curls out ofLucian's face. "Tell me which I should understand: your words or yourbody?" Because," he went on, now touching Lucian's lips, "they say quitedifferent things, you know?"Once more his mouth closed over. That is unshakable, rock solid, doubtless belief.Cody was worried about Viper adepts. Based on the information from the Viper Captain, he needed to shield his group so they couldn't be mentally detected or followed by the Viper adepts. Equally concerning was the Captain's claim that adepts could fog people's minds. He explained the problem to his mother, but she couldn't think of a way either. Visualization, to prevent the Viper Adepts from tracking them, was the best hope they had. They didn't.