She was absolutely desperate to get him back. Tanner rejected a long distance relationship and didn't want her to come with him ' he didn't think eith...er of them were ready for that.Even when she began dating other guys, she was obsessed with Tanner. Tanner came back to town once ' about a year after he had left ' to meet up with some friends. He contacted Mel and that evening had her in bed again. She was with him for 3 days and then he left again to go back to his new home. Those 3 days cost. Anna wiggled her way to the front of the mob of people. It had taken her a while to find the blaze, but the firemen hadn't wasted those 40 minutes. Their efforts had been successful and they'd contained the flames to just the one three-story Vic. But the cost to house had been high. Large, ugly slashes of splintered wood surrounded gaping holes in the front of the house. The firefighters hadn't bothered with doors it seemed.She watched as one of fireman separated from the others. He swaggered. ’ Standing up she bent over to pick up her dress from the floor where she had dropped it hours before. Slipping it over her head Misha watched as her beautiful body disappeared inside the soft pale material, telling her, ‘You have to eat, I have to eat, we can eat together.’ Slipping her feet into the sandals she looked at him for a moment, ‘OK sugar, you can watch, then feed me. I’ll write down the address as I leave, we start rehearsals about five, see you there.’ and then she was gone, the. Silvitya looked around at the lands lost by the Danubians in 1502: all of the fine farms and manors laid out on flat, rich soil. The architecture, after 250 years of foreign occupation, was different from what she was used to seeing in the Duchy. She was particularly fascinated with some of the public buildings and mosques that had been constructed by the Ottomans, structures that were totally different from anything she had seen in the Duchy.Like every other Danubian, Silvitya had heard plenty.