. marginally better, but better. He could hardly think, his mind was so clouded with anger and hate. Destroying the Empress and her fleet made him fee...l better for a little while, till he remembered that it didn't help Amy any. He very carefully avoided considering what his actions had done to the rest of his daughters. Right now, he didn't care. If this was all the better Amy was ever going to be, he'd just as soon die. If he died, his daughters would die too, so what difference did it make?. The possibilities seemed endless: reforming criminals, creating theperfect super soldiers, maybe even curing diseases. It certainly had thepotential to make him an immensely wealthy man.The idea also made him the laughing stock of his university. No onebelieved what he could do was possible and even if it could happen the useswould certainly be highly unethical. His insistence on exploring the topicresulted in Felix losing his scholarship with the school. Not having anyfamily to fall back on. . well, they weren't your Mom. It was a major shock for me. Sitting there across from me was not only my beautiful Mom, but a beautiful woman. Smiling at me. Smiling at me alone. A woman who had the attention of every guy in this big room. And she was focusing all her attention on me. A woman who had every guy in the place yearning for a glance, whereas her eyes were mine alone.Every guy in the place had the hots for her! They'd hop aboard for a ride first chance they got. Even though she was. From that moment, she was hoping he was as good a person as he was a musician because she was smitten.When he asked her out to dinner, she nearly jumped at it immediately but she'd been brought up to be cautious in her choice of friends and even more cautious in her choice of potential lovers and that conservative upbringing served as an effective damper between her and her compulsions.All through that afternoon at the academy as she patiently coached one student after another, she struggled to.