"Dad, I'm glad we came here," she said. "I was afraid at first that... but the place has changed so much it's almost like we're here for the first tim...." The old couple, Norwegians, who had owned and operated the lodge in the old days had sold it. It had never been a big place, so the new owners had added the new lodges to the property and updated the original building. They added six more rooms off the east end. With the original rooms upstairs that gave them an even dozen.They'd made a lot of. Her uncle could have had any woman, what with his chestnut hair that fell in waves down his back, as did her mothers, and his strong features and his jaw set in stone. Bella had even seen him naked once as a child, after she had gotten lost in the manor and ended up at his bedchamber where he was getting dressed. Her uncle was very handsome. "Bella for what you did, you must be punished", he said as sternly as he could and Bella almost winced from the look on his face. knowing what she must do. . almost as much as their parents. They hadn’t cared for Gaston nearly that much. Judging from the way that Richard acted around his own mother now, he was in deep in the throes of an Oedipus complex, except maybe not the patricide part (hopefully not). He couldn’t keep his hands off Justine at all. If the present trend continued, she might soon have a third husband: her own son. At least that was her impression.“Richard, baby, I love you, but you need to get a good taste of other women as. I walked down the carpet of dead leaves, moving through the trees as I came closer and closer to the river that divided Summer from Winter. My heart pounded in my chest. I felt so tense. I kept pausing, searching for the eyes I felt for sure were watching me.I wondered where my girlfriend was. Had Cindy found this same valley yet? Was she moving towards this same river just out of sight? Were we only a mile apart and yet had no idea how close we were? I would feel so much safer if I found my.