"Just so none of us get too hungry," she looked directly at Terisa, who glared back with a hurt expression on her face, "let's all do a 'hands-on' and... teleport this thing to University. Jacob'll know what to do with it."The five girls all put their hands on the object, then they all immediately disappeared, their original search for dead bodies forgotten for the moment. An instant later, they were in the laboratory at University.She jerked awake to the sound of two metal objects striking. I was watching you through the keyhole." I'd hated myself for doing this because I knew I'd be pissed as hell at Ritchie if I'd caught him spying on me in the bathroom. "I've never done that before, but my curiosity got the better of me. Do you forgive me?" No. Was that your question?" Come on Ritchie I know you have a right to be mad but don't be like this. Come on?"Without saying a word, he delivered a strong punch to my shoulder. I winced and rubbed my shoulder."Yeah, I forgive you." But he. And subsisting on the miserable funds that her mother had doled out to him, where would he have got the money for such expensive high quality underground publications?What she could just not forgive herself for was that the campaign she had so readily undertaken with such self-righteous satisfaction on her mother’s prompting, had been so devastating to him that he had seriously contemplated suicide. Who had she really thought she was protecting from the child ‘pervert’? Why had she not seen his. When he turned around again she had raised herself up and adjusted her dress."Feel better?" he asked."O-Oui... I think so." She let off a long sigh and rubbed her hand over her forehead. "P-Please, M'sieu' Shannon... sit down..."But he didn't; instead, he stood there, his eyes moving over her, stripping her hungrily, a certain lasciviousness that she had not seen before coming to light in them. Once more, she felt a tiny shudder creep over her. She watched him wet his dry lips with his tongue.