Anyway, yesterday I went to my OBGYN and after a severe look for getting pregnant "at my age" she told me everything looked fine for a delivery next s...ring."Karen stopped as if she had run out of gas. Looking around, she was surprised not to be greeted by congratulation or scorn or mockery. Instead, Sara spoke up. "I hadn't thought about it that way. Maybe it was the "empty next" feeling, as you said. That and regret that soon I'll have only one loving husband rather than one loving husband AND. ..Lynda wore a flowered summer frock and flat-heeled sandals. The light dress stopped mid-thigh and was slightly see-through. It clung to her body in places and Ryan could see the outline of a bra and panties against the light behind her. Her hair was still slightly damp, and she wore no make-up except a light touch-up of lip-gloss. She had a nervous look on her beautiful face, which changed to slight apprehension when Ryan asked her to close the door - both of them. And lock the outside. She chuckled remarking that I was talking just like her mother used to in saying ‘the morrow’ instead of ‘tomorrow’ and it was to become a kind of joke. “It is lovely having you next to me, it has been such a long time since I have warmed to a man” she whispered and I grasped her hand, squeezed it to give her that certain comfort. Low and behold she returned the gesture and all of a sudden I felt a certain bonding with her I could never have envisaged a month come Sunday’s. We spent the rest of. ’ The light from the open doorway has me scrambling to pull the covers up over my face. Finally darkness again washes it protectiveness over me. I hesitate for a moment, but then I invite him to sit on the bed. ‘That invite cost you a lot, didn’t it Maria.’ I don’t answer and I feel him sit on the end of the bed as I scooch up to the pillows. ‘I know that it did. I know that you don’t want me to get close to you and I know that you watched me leave the lab that day that I tried to meet you. I.