“Listen well, Altena, my child, for we do not have much time,” the undead Queen said to her only child. “Listen and remember what I will now tel...l you. There is only one reason for this war, and that reason is you, my dear. You are an Unholy Maiden, and the only one in the entire world right now - Unholy Maidens are, and have always been, something extremely rare. The living fear you and wish to destroy you now, while you are still weak. But I will not allow them to do as they please. I will. ” He laughed. “I’m at this place,” he said, giving her a business card from a quietly expensive boutique hotel a 15 minute stroll away. “Suite 10. There’s a car park at the back if you want, or get a taxi if you’d rather your registration wasn’t seen there.” He looked at her left hand with its engagement and wedding rings. “No that’s OK,” she said. “We’re just going to go over each other’s portfolios.” She laughed again and so did he. “We’d better go back in,” he said. “Otherwise we’ll miss. I just was offered a new job and I was taking some time off after quitting my previous job.I was out front, pulling some weeds from the lawn to kill time. Then a car stopped in front of the house. It was a convertible, and HE was in it.He just left his c***dhood home and was on his way to his new adult home. He saw me and decided to stop and say hello.The first few moments were very awkward. Which you would expect. That soon passed and we caught each other up on our lives. I got married a year. We rafted up next to them and I notice she was looking a me. I smiled at her, but I felt she was undressing me with her eyes. We introduced ourselves to one another, she had dark skin and was from China. She had just moved to the United States from Hong Kong. We talked and got to know one each other, she said to me that she thought I was beautiful and she wanted to get to know me better. I enjoyed our conversation and as it progressed she said I was hot, I told her that she was too. We were.