Dating a larger lady

Samara had snuck out of the clothes store the moment her mum had vanished inside the changing rooms. She had clothes, why would she need even more? Not like they sold anything shed be interested in. She pictured the model shed based her painting upon, glowering from the pages of the metal magazines in leather corsets, tartan miniskirts, fishnets, and spiked jewellery. The mail order companies she represented, now there was a shopping experience Samara could get into…not that she had the money, or a credit card. Most of her clothing was bought from a stall in the indoor market, run by a creepy guy affectionately known as Sweaty Steve by his teenage customers. Metallica, Coal Chamber, Nirvana, Cradle, Tool…he stocked them all. Dodgy knock offs, but within her limited budget. Dakota She stepped through the door into the tunnel beyond, his sect blade still clutched in her hand. She fell at Shans feet, Jerens sect knife in her back. Youre hesitating. His voice chimed out through the chamber. While you do that, which one of them will I kill next? Your faithful traitor, Roh? Or the sword-maiden? Mind you I doubt that shes much of a maiden now— The contortions of her face told me the pain shed suffered. Please, Christian, take it away. I think the turning point for him was Emma, and he was telling the truth. He really didnt know about her and that Salyer had taken her. I think that was the turning point for Salyer, too—watching you pregnant, seeing a new life come into the world. He hurled himself at the solid oak, as impotent now as if still chained up. Gilliad was in there, the man who had ruined his life. The man who would have tortured him to madness like Haledren. Hed failed. Not just to find the Shistra Phail. Hed failed Anala and Fa too. They exchanged positions, Samara nearly giggling. Gabriel walked outside, breathing in the fresh air. It would be dawn soon, and the moon would disappear and allow the sun to rise. Hed always viewed that as a ritual of life and death. Though he didnt believe in reincarnation, he did believe in some form of life after the body died. If he didnt believe that, hewould have gone insane after Colleen’s death. As a cop, he could understand Dakota’s guilt over Salyer’s murders. He had his own load of garbage to carry around. The van was only a few feet away. Inside was the carton of cigarettes he’d purchased before he and Max had left Beaufort. There was no reason he couldn’t smoke anymore. He was going to die either way. Jeren glared at him but kept her peace. Try? Too right shed try. If hed just for once believe she could do anything of worth. Then she thought of Shan and her indignation punctured once more. Their eyes slid towards him, over him and back to her, as if searching for a denial, praying for one. They couldnt, or wouldnt, accept what they saw or heard. Certainly there was no reconciling the two. Alyssa, said Elayne. She thinks—she thinks you want her dead. Gilliad told her, while she carries his heir— When she had left the pavilion Jeren was surprised to see Vertigern smile. We can, but theres not much more than what was in the paperwork. The Clark family moved here ten years ago when the parents retired. Mr. and Mrs. Clark were killed in an automobile accident last year, leaving Amanda and Angelina as two of Savannahs most eligible females. Suitors flocked tothem, but to the best of our knowledge, Angelina wasnt dating or seeing anyone. He sat on the bed, which sank beneath him, but thankfully didnt elicit another cloud of dust. Soft with down, that bed, and a moment of longing swept through her. Once upon a time all her nights had been spent in such a bed. Shed slept on hard ground for so long now this didnt feel right. Naul sniffed each corner of the room and then settled himself down beside the meagre fire. He studied their surroundings covertly. The cavern that formed the cells was not as vast as that occupied by the Enchassa, but it was large enough to hold four separate cells, with wooden bars separating them. All but this one were empty. There were no Feyna here, none but him. As he had feared..