She returned to her suite and leaned on the closed door for a long moment and felt truly happy for the first time she knew, in a very long time. She could even feel that Laud was happy inside her mind as well, at all that had just gone on down in Slade’s office.
Tomorrow, all their problems would be resolved for them, or, well, their one true major concern anyway. All the heats that they were to have between now and until that moment came when she got Anthony to issue that rejection, and it was going to come from him. She was going to force his hand into it at some point.
When, where and how was still unknown to her, but she was going to do it. See him at some point in the future come to realize there was no future for them, regardless of them being Goddess-Gifted to each other.
This,
