The last song that played on the radio before they got to Dan'sapartment, however, was "Birthday Sex".How convenient, I smiled to myself.Dan walked me... to the door of his apartment, opened the door, led meinside, and turned on the main light. I'm not sure why that actionspecifically did it, but my hormones suddenly went into overdrive.The moment after I set my purse down on Dan's dining room table, Ialmost pounced on this man like a cat in heat. Dan took off my wrap andwe began to kiss. This. In fact, combating fatigue was a part of the syllabus he taught trainees, heavy-lift helicopter pilots were occasionally called upon to show extraordinary endurance in the cockpit, it was just a fact of life. It was a statistical impossibility that he would fall asleep driving a rental car home after an only eighteen or nineteen-hour day. Shari blinked. ‘I was fantasizing about the same thing,’ she said quietly, looking him directly in the eyes. ‘It was some sort of daydream, because I wasn’t. ’ The weather report seemed to come out of thin air. Neither one of us had exactly being paying attention to the storm brewing outside, but now it was hard to ignore. Thunder again, somehow seeming closer this time. Glancing out the window at the lightning streaking through the sky, I sighed, storms had always made me uncomfortable. I think I’d always believed that I would end up becoming the one out of a million that would be struck by lightning. ‘I better get out of here before the roads. I know that every time I see him on the street people that even I don't know are saying good morning to him.He already has various women wanting to pin him down to marry, but he manages to stay single. There hasn't been anyone who has caught him yet," said Melt."Oh? So he's your local Casanova?" asked Brianna smugly"No, Aric is far from it. To the best of everyone's knowledge he's never stepped out with any of the women in town. Not from a lack of trying on their part. Some of the men are.