.. “The best part of this is, I get to love you, Rita and Rachel. Plus, I will get to be with Mom as much or more than I am now. I can see Mom getti...g into something like this. She loves to teach and she loves to play tennis - but most of all, Mom loves to be with friends, Rachel - and me.”“Guy, you make me want to live like that too, after describing her life that way. I’ve been so close to becoming a recluse, even as a Mom with a teen daughter ... without giving up everything and moving to. He smiled a wicked smile, and looked dangerously close to laughing. “I see…” He looked down at the floor and smiled, pressing his lips together. She scoffed. “You know what? Screw you… whoeveryouare!” She said to his face, and turned to walk back out to the bar. He stopped her by grabbing her by the wrist, and he pulled her back in front of him. “My name is James,” he said silkily. “MacLeod.” “James…” She tasted the name on her tongue, relived that she finally knew his name. “Well, then.. I had no idea what I would say or do if Annalise was still working in that bar. I was half hoping she would be there, and half hoping she wouldn't. We would have both changed from how we had been in 1987-what if we didn't like the people we had become?Of course, in those intervening years the Berlin Wall had come down, Germany was in the process of reuniting, the Soviet Union was splitting up, and the Warsaw Pact had been wound up.I remembered watching on TV as Berliners flocked to the Wall,. So, without sharing that you know this about him, admit that you have desires for me. But dont be eagerwait for him to pry into whats going on. Make him first promise to keep secret what you are about to tell him. After confiding in him reluctantly, make sure he doesnt tell me either. Then hell know its not what he thought. Get mad at him if he presses you to talk about these desires for me. He needs to know that there still is something you will not talk about. If needed, say, You may like.