To have had him back again only to lose him so soon had seemed like the cruelest of fates. He'd woken up just as the paramedics had arrived, only to l...ok at Sarah and say, "Hey, if it gets me this much attention, maybe I should keep having more accidents. What do you think?" Then he'd smiled, and she'd cried in relief.The months following had been a time of transition for her, Luke and Jack. Luke still hadn't fully recovered all of his memories. It seemed likely he never would. But he didn't. Melissa walked passed me, and I could have sworn I saw her glance down at my bulge... She walked away from the aisles of lockers and into the shower room. Reggie walked passed me, following her, and grabbed my arm and pulled me along. "Get a hold of yourself Zach. We're still having a conversation." "Yeah, yeah, I'm good," I said, as I tried to force the heat from my cheeks. We stopped in the doorway of the shower room as Melissa turned on one of the shower heads. "Look Melissa, this isn't. The only thing we knew for sure was that we would face the best the Betans had to offer.We were transported to our jump-off point which was similar to what we had faced on the previous job. The Betans had smoothed the field surrounding the blockhouse and put in a bunch of pillboxes equipped with machine guns. I still didn't know why they didn't use stun guns, which would have been much more effective against us.Anyway, we used our previous tactics against the pill boxes and scored the same. Like I am now. But I can’t do this to Frank any more than I could do it to Pete.”“No, I guess you can’t,” Trudy acknowledged.“Should I leave?” I asked.“No, please don’t. I’m sorry. I’m just having a small crisis. I told you before that I’d never been with anyone but Frank and I guess I’m curious. I know enough about your skills that I’m so tempted. But it would ruin everything, wouldn’t it.”“It would. The most important thing I’ve learned in the last six months is how vital it is to set limits.