#52517 - “Thank you so much Senor, Thank you Steve…Steve?” “Steve, are you ok?” Char asked with concern as she gently touched his face. Alex saw the end of their day unfolding in his head as he watched them laughing with each other around the dinner table and felt a strong, almost irresistible, desire to jump from the truck, sprint the hundred yards to his boyhood home, throw the door open, and beg their forgiveness while he pleaded to be part of their family again. ” Alex quietly replied as he released her hand and caught a whiff of her sweet musky scent, knowing it was all her because human’s could never duplicate such an exquisite and heavenly aroma; he clenched his teeth and used all his training, his will power, his self-discipline to regain his composure and hoping his military bearing would be enough to protect him from the sexual creature even while he knew it wouldn’t.