Well, the Invictus were doing their best to seduce the Uratha into their employ. Money for expensive suits and dresses wasn’t exactly the best way t...o spend a fortune, but then again, this way the werewolves were getting more involved with the city and its vampires. Even Avery was there, wearing a tight one-piece white dress that reached halfway down her thigh, long sleeves with shoulders, and the classic boob window. Very mature, and it fit her mature visage well.Jack did a double take when his. "I laughed. "Hell, when Natalie started puberty, I worried about keeping her away from bad guys -- then she never found anyone in Ohio even remotely interesting. Now here in California she's found a guy she's told me several times she's really interested in, and you and I are plotting how to get them together! That's a switch."Rose told me seriously, "Well I've talked with Bob a few times this school year, and whenever I 'happen' to mention Natalie, he gets this silly grin I've never seen on. She was wearing a loose tee-shirt and jeans, which couldn't hide her nice figure. She looked like she was in her twenties. "I hope I'm not as well," he added."Well, you're driving a Mercedes S-class, you don't need to be dangerous to me," she said, and smiled at him again.Franc turned around and gave her a complimentary look. "You know car pretty well, huh?" he said."Not at all," she said, "Everyone can tell this is a Mercedes." But not the model," he said."They look a little different," she. "Alice patted his knee and sat back positively beaming with festive spirit. "I thought you'd like them, sweetie," she smiled, "No more losing them in that silly grass. You can spot those pink one's a mile away!"Ted merely smiled. A four iron into the nearest water hazard should do the trick. All around them lay the remnants of wrapping paper, tinsel, ribbons, and bows of various colors that had been cast aside as presents were unwrapped. Their first Christmas morning together had been one to.