He ignored her and kept going. The way he felt right then he did not dare talk to her. He was still angry about the previous night. A couple of minute... later the car phone rang.When he ignored it, Susana answered the damned thing."Hello?" she said. "It's for you Dad, Mom." Yo," he said when he accepted it."Jeff, where are you going without telling me?" Brenda demanded."Tecate. I promised Susana I'd take her over to do some shopping." Why did you sneak off without telling me? What are you. " Her lover squirmed for a moment. "Megan, even as your future husband, it's not right for me to invade such private matters." Oh, I don't mind. Ask what you want, and if you get too personal, I'll let you know." Megan gave him an encouraging smile and turned to lie beside him, resting her arm draped across him and petting his chest with her hand."Okay!" He smiled happily and petted her in silence for a moment. "Your first lover, how old were you? What was he like? How did he persuade you to. " On a really cold Saturday I was in Gregor's neighborhood looking for work, I'd applied at the Grocery Store, and a couple of other businesses when I passed Sam's Studio. I stopped and looked at a couple of the pictures he had in his windows and was about to take off when the door opened and he came out. "Gregor's not here today he said." I know, I replied, putting in applications for work over at the store' A frigid gust of wind had me pull my threadbare jacket tighter. He frowned a. I have often wondered if that was the only true thing Vlad ever told us ... that in Russia, this attitude about trying things with someone you know already loves you is more acceptable than it is here.Anyway, she had no problem whatsoever adopting Aunt Maureen's idea of a possible future for us as her own. In fact, ten minutes after she heard about it, she was making plans with Aunt Maureen about how to make it all happen.I'm making it sound like it was all sweetness and light. That was not the.