I sighed again, took out my knife and walked over to the bed. "It's okay, ma'am, we won't hurt you," I told the woman in horrible Pashto. At least I t...ink that was what I said. I cut her loose and put a discarded blanket from the floor around her to try to warm her as her skin was almost blue with the cold, a pretty neat trick considering she looked local. "My medic is coming and he will check you over." Thank you, Sergeant... , " she said in quavering, unaccented English.It took me a minute to. She asked if I needed hotel reservations and I told her not at that time.I arrived back at my house a little after five. Tamara's XLR was in the garage. I walked in and there on the coffee table in the den were two vases of roses. Sam was sitting at the table in the breakfast nook.I looked around for the girls and they weren't there."If you're looking for Tamara and Lena, they are upstairs and they said to tell you not to go up there," Sam said. He walked over and handed me a note.It read,. Ashford. After he stepped out I leaned down close to Williams ear and whispered to him, William I love you so much and so does Lucy, I prayed every night that you would come home but not like this not not dead I wish that I could have just one more night with you… one more night to hold you and tell you again how much I love you just to here you say it back.I gasped as I took hold of his glacier like hand, William I need you so much you have no idea do you the way that I need you, I leaned in. She was a little girl of ten years old, and he was only eleven himself. He remembered the first time he saw her, thinking how cute she was and how pretty she would likely become as she grew up.Why didn’t he take notice of her sooner, why didn’t he ask her to the Yule Ball, why didn’t he ask her along on the hunt for the Horcruxes? All of these questions were filling his head as he was looking at the naked form of this ravishing redheaded sixteen-year-old!Now he was naked as well, not worried.