She felt him pull her hard against him, his hands sliding down her back under the elastic waist band of her shalwar onto her full soft buttocks of ben...eath.His mouth pressed against hers as she felt his fingers dig into and pull at her buttocks.Then one hand moved around her hips and onto the flat of her lower stomach before pushing down between her legs onto the hot sweaty skin of her vagina.His fingers found her slit and teased it with gentle stroking movements before pressing on her. ’ ‘Move him?’ Karina echoed exchanging a dubious sideways glance with Merryl. ‘Where?’ ‘Back to camp so I can treat his wounds.’ ‘Camp?’ Karina repeated, staring at her. ‘Are you mad?’ ‘If we don’t he’ll die,’ Lena said, with increasing impatience. ‘So?’ Karina fired back. ‘He’s obviously got into a fight with a Faerie and come off second-best. What’s one less man in the world?’ ‘You sound just like Nerris. Remember without men none of us would be here,’ Lena retorted. ‘Now, give me whatever. I was her junior high andhigh school sweetheart, her first love, first fuck,her first and only steady (which to her meant the guyshe steadily gave sloppy seconds to), her junior andsenior prom date. She left me at the altar to go findherself. Took me two years to find where she foundherself, and I stumbled onto her quite by accident.I found her right where I lost her in the Houstonarea. I was sure she headed up to the Dallas/Ft. Wortharea. I knew she wanted to get into exotic dance, andI knew. That afternoon, shortly before 3:00, Jim turned off his computer at work and left for the day. He stopped off at a florist, purchasing a dozen long stemmed red roses on his way home. When Sandy used her key to open the door, she was surprised to see Jim waiting for her and even more surprised when he handed her the box containing the roses. After opening the box and seeing the roses, Sandy placed them carefully on the coffee table before launching herself into Jim's welcoming arms. They kissed.