Chapter 156

"Giving me orders now, are you?"

"Damned straight. I am, after all, the resistance leader. And I say resistance against what I plan is futile."

"That has to be the cheesiest seduction line I've ever had the misfortune to hear."

"Maybe, and yet you're getting naked."

Indeed she was because, foolish or not, if this was her last chance to catch a glimpse of nirvana, then she was taking it. In a few hours, she could be dead. Rather than dwell on that dire thought, why not lose herself in a moment of pleasure?

"I smell like dead fish." And sex. An interesting combination that surely everyone had noted. The retrospect had the ability to make her cheeks warm. It also hastened her stripping so she could step into the hot water.