'I love you Willow,' I sent directly to her thoughts as I turned and headed back to the limo.

I heard the change in her breathing as she leapt to her feet, raced to the front door and flung it open. She called out my name but I was already at the corner of the block. I was halfway down the next block when the limo arrived and picked me up. I should have been miserable and shivering but the thirty two degree rain had no impact on me except that I was wet. I called ahead and had a hot bath and dry clothes waiting for me. I stepped...