#Nicci at dinner bantering with her new family ~<br/><br/>Nicci smiled delightedly when  Mila had joined in the banter.  She had been going to reply to Vince's quip but she stayed quiet, wanting the shyer woman to share in the attention.  Vince obviously loved his dance partner taking up the challenge. She really enjoyed how he said just holding hands would be enough for him, he really must have kissed the Blarney Stone she thought,  he had a way with words that would be sure to melt any woman's heart.<br/><br/>She watched him while his attention was elsewhere, his lyricism wasn't confined just to his words as he also had a kind of feline grace in his movements which was both sensual and exciting.  He seemed at once both graceful and sinfully sure of himself at the same time.<br/><br/>Her eyes moving down to Bo she thought they all had a different kind of physical appeal  and Bo's contained power and strong presence had more to do with energy, self reliance and command. She couldn't imagine saying no to either of them in most circumstances which was understandable seeing what the psychs must have been looking for in the first place.  She couldn't easily see Marcus but looking down at his capable hands she knew that his appeal too had a lot to do with command and control, he also had a feeling about him of astuteness, of seeing more and understanding even more than that.<br/><br/>Together they would make quite a team, and if the banter was anything to go by it wouldn't be long before they pushed at initial boundaries and broke down a few walls in the process.  She was happy for them to get to know each other physically sooner rather than later.  She thought that it would be yet another way to build the connections they needed - and the sooner any embarrassment or uncertainty was stripped away the sooner they would open up to each other in other ways.  In fact she couldn't wait, and looking at the two men she didn't think they could either come to that as the sexual innuendo had put an extra sparkle in their eyes and that look of inner excitement.<br/><br/>She laughed aloud at Mari's comment, she could see that someone else at the table had a mind as sinful as her own but she stifled her own instinctive reply again, preferring instead stay quiet and let Mila have the space to make herself heard, with Mari's and the guys' encouragement she could really bloom and make herself at ease with them all.  She ate some more of the delicious chicken which definitely had thyme in the mushroom stuffing she thought, she looked forward to cooking them all toad in the hole, both to see the look on their faces when they tasted just how wonderful it was but also because it would remind them of their first night together and Mila flowering in the warmth of their care.<br/><br/>