You can't know what that's like." She shuddered.When the sun as setting and we had seen no one who resembled her step-father, I took her to a tavern a...d bought us some stew."Where do you sleep?" she asked as I lit a clay pipe.I smiled at her through the smoke, thinking of Faith and the little girls at their tavern. "Various places," I said."I've a bed at the store," she said. "Not very big, but if..." she hesitated and her eyes widened. "It's him," she whispered.I glanced where she was staring. I jumped up and picking up the escape pod's aluminum pot, raced for water.Upon my return to the tower, Hazel took the pot from my hands and kissed me deeply. "I think you have given me a child too, Lord Solon," she said with a pat of her stomach, turning to place the pot on the fire. The main floor was full of excited women who noticed Hazel's greeting and ran to me with smiles and open arms. "Lord Solon's going to be a father today," Key said, taking her own kiss from my lips. Then a wave of. That will never change.”“If I loved him, I never would have given up my memories of him,” I hissed. I stepped back and cracked my hand on her ass. The smack echoed through the room, the handprint red and bright.She laughed. “Oh, you are a fool. You gave up your soulmate for the prophecy. How pathetic is that? You could have been happy with him.”“Liar!”Crack!“Spanking my ass won’t change the truth.” She wiggled her hips. “You can spank me until I bleed, but it won’t change reality.”I drew back. The man loves having women walk around either his pool or Ethan’s in their bikinis. They also resume their neighborhood block parties and the first one is the first weekend of spring.The block party takes place in the afternoon and into the evening. They have a couple kegs, plenty of food and soft drinks for the kids. Lars brings Katsu to the block party and as Nari has predicted, all the guys are tripping over their tongues. Katsu wears very tight slacks and an even tighter sweater, which.