”“I’m copying you. I figured if you wear that you’ll be too hot if we have the regular duvet, so I thought I’d wear this and we’d use ligh...tweight bedding. What’s wrong with that? I mean, what were you thinking?”“I was going to tease you.”“So I’d be naked and you’re... you’re like you are... you were going to suck the cage? Was that it?”“I guess. I’m sorry, I don’t know what I’m doing.”“You were in the hospital a month, that’s got to be enough to throw anyone off track. We don’t have to do. Heat spread out all over her body from her center, from his tongue. The heat became a fire which burned through her. It consumed her.And, when it left, nothing remained. Slowly, her self came back together, David was holding her, cuddling her, murmuring to her. “Jen, sweet Jen,” he said. “Jen, lovely Jennifer, say yes.” Say yes to what? He was holding something in front of her face. It was a packaged condom.“Yes,” she said. “Yes, David, oh yes!” Which, one part of her brain noted, was much more. I always made sure that Mary Lou got my best card. Sometimes I would write 'I Love You' on the back of hers.Here I am in the hospital almost eighty years later thinking about my first Valentine's cards. It was so many years ago, but it seems like just yesterday when I put a card in Mary Lou's tissue box.She was my girlfriend in those first few years of school. She lived next door to me and we walked to school together till her family moved away. I missed her but again I was only nine years old. Lara froze and turned her head to see a tall muscular man pointing a gun at her."Lara Croft. What a surprise to see you here," He said, his voice thick with sarcasm. "Ah Yes. One of Natla's goons. I guess I didn't tie up all the lose ends when I destroyed her and her plans." It's been real nice talking to you, but my new employer has ordered me to kill you if I saw you on his property." "Many people have tried to kill me and all have failed," Lara commented, smiling at the guard while she.