Aella Aella made her way through the Council building towards the archives, wondering whether she was making the right decision by meeting Barker there. She assumed he wouldn"t have asked her to join him if he didn"t have a good reason. But that didn"t make it any safer to be somewhere alone with him, not when almost every thought she had resulted in the two of them entwined together in a way she couldn"t allow. It was her own fault. If she hadn"t asked him to kiss her, then this wouldn"t be a problem in the first place. But now she had the memory of his lips against hers. She wanted more, but knew she couldn"t have it. Not if she wanted to keep her seat on the High Council. She checked over her shoulder to make sure no one saw her go inside, though she wasn"t sure why. As a Council me

