The agreement is that the match would be between comparable ranks, but Master Chen has decided to cheat, again. He has not gotten over the way he had ...been beaten in his contest with Master Lee. He fully intends to get even by destroying her student.Master Chen’s student, Peng Chanming, is in the fourth rank of his style, but could have advanced to the fifth rank at any time. Instead, Master Chen has held him back from testing. He teaches the young man, on the side, the skills he would have been. I thought of kissing her, seeing if her face was as soft as it looked - baby flesh.Yes, it was there from the start, especially once she gave me the age-old inviting smile and her eyes became, for a moment, a woman’s eyes.Sixteen, maybe s*******n, she was no older than that. Scuffed oxfords, shoulder bag, white sox pulled up over the calves, a school k** who had maybe drifted into the line outside the book store just to see what was happening.She might have been a c***d actress or a model. I. Dads friends stop by to have a little fun. The Greenwood couple was finally going out for a romantic evening together and would be leaving their two daughters, Alice (age 21) and Marie (age 15), the house for themselves for the evening. This was a pretty special occasion, being the Greenwoods, (Erica Greenwood in particular), rarely ever trusted their daughters to have the house for themselves overnight. They were young once and remembered all mischief and trouble they had once gotten into any. "I'm sure you're really going to enjoy this," she said, opening the door. "I know I would. Go ahead in."Her hand was shaking more than a little, in spite of her efforts to look like she was in complete control. She hoped it wouldn't count against her. She gathered herself one last them as she walked through the door, trying to look completely confident."Well lookie here," said Charles. "They sent me a sweet little white girl."She blinked. This didn't sound like the Charles she'd talked to.