.. disgusting ... It is no wonder that she sits there, frowning at me. She must think that I am a depraved beast. Thankfully, she has no idea what cau...ed my arousal. I am certain that if she knew she was the reason for my tumescence, she would not only refuse to continue traveling with Helen and me, but my face would have received a rather resounding slap."He continued his surreptitious adjustment of his aroused manhood. All the while attempting to keep Christine in his line of sight."The last. “Rebecca, I didn’t...”“Hush, my darling. I know. I have more faith in you than in all the rest of the world. We need to call Doc Heinrich, though.”“They are an hour ahead of us. It’s probably too late to call them tonight,” Wesley said. The painkillers had made his head muzzy.“Darling, it isn’t even dinnertime here yet. They are probably having cocktails or something.”“I hate to say it, but that sounds like a great idea,” Wesley tried to laugh.“Not with painkillers,” Rebecca admonished.. “Does your family know about...” he begins, stalling as he considers the most tactful way to refer to her pregnancy.She stares at him in bewilderment for a silent second before a brief chuckle escapes her lips, ejecting a single particle of food that lands on the table. “My family thinks I’m still working for the college, Rachele explains. Her expression of subdued amusement and polite tone of voice are the manners people display when they try to answer extremely stupid questions without. There were four wagons in the group we were traveling in. We hadn’t hobbled the animals yet but had them grazing near the wagon.We were at the end of the line of four wagons camped along the path of the creek. And that made us the last wagon that the three strangers passed as they rode past the camp.“Hey, Mitch, look!” one of the riders said.“What?” He answered brusquely.“Teats!”The man identified as Mitch pulled back on the reins on his horse and looked in the direction the other man was.