" Yes, but not just that. Thank you… for being a friend to me."Cindy gave a soft smile at this. "I see the way Dave looks at you, Maddie. He's no... letting you go, and I can tell you feel the same way about him. That makes us sisters, and I'll be damned if I'm not a friend to my sister."Maddie beamed at this, knowing that Cindy considered her family after only a single day. The girls finished paying for their purchases and returned to Cindy's car, heading home for the day.*****Dave waved. "Apparently, he has an apartment a stone's throw from Times Square, which is where he takes her," Vanessa revealed. "In one of her recent messages, she offered to leave her husband but he convinced her to stay with him." He's like a fucking cuckoo," I declared. "How many more women do you think he has on the go?" I'm convinced she's not the only one," Vanessa claimed."Incredible." I was such an idiot to fall for his charm." Try not to dwell on it, love." I hugged her affectionately to provide. . and his heart pounds harder as your thighs part, as you slide one delicate hand down your front and between them. The shaky sigh you utter next nearly makes him lose his self-control, a breathy whimper as your fingers play lightly over your sensitive, slippery heat, begging their exploration again. He smiles as you lay your head on his shoulder, your delightful lips at his ear, giving him audience to the sexiest sounds he's ever heard. A moan escapes him, louder than he'd intended, as your. ”The cardiologist arrived and diagnosed Sick Sinus Syndrome, where the sinoatrial (SA) node of the heart, its primary biological pacemaker that signals the heart to beat, stops working. There are backup mechanisms that will pace if this node fails, so I wasn’t in serious danger. Nevertheless, SA-related pauses of 3 seconds or more are considered absolute indications for pacemaker insertion.They transferred me to a community hospital to have the pacemaker inserted, which, at the time, involved.