“Let me get this straight; you have seven kids by four different women? Seriously?”I nodded, “Yes. We all live on the same property back in Chic...go. The mom to my eldest boy is the lesbian. She wanted a kid with her wife, but biology doesn’t allow that, so we had a kid together. I have two boys by a former lover who lives in the house with us. I have two wives, though only one of them is legal, and I have two girls by one of them and a boy and a girl by the other.”“I’m gobsmacked,” Pippa. ‘You gonna take him in the Rustmobile?’ Jim set about packing up his work papers. ‘Get off it, Rich,’ he snapped. ‘Hey, hey,’ Rich countered, ‘I was just trying to loosen you up. You look nervous.’ ‘Sorry, Rich. I guess I am a little nervous.’ ‘Well, stop being nervous. It’s pretty clear that they liked what they saw this morning. So, relax!’ ******************** Jim presented himself at the placement office where he’d had his interview earlier that day. He had his arms full with a box that. Dani awoke to the sounds of someone tramping along through the dry, dying forest. Lying perfectly still, she delicately reached out and mentally brushed the mind of the strange traveler. She clamped down hard on her emotions as she realized that the man walking by only a few yards away was like her – a lost soul searching with a great longing for whoever or whatever had been inside these mountains.From Montreal, Dani had felt the violence and the mass killing that had occurred here several. ’ ‘Well, why didn’t you go out with your friends from the studio?’ ‘Because I wanted to spend time with you, Luc.’ That comment sent an odd feeling through him. He sensed that something might be wrong, that she had something to tell him or a problem she wanted to talk about. ‘Is everything ok?’ he asked. ‘Fine, Luc, just fine,’ she smiled. Her full lips pulled apart to reveal shiny white teeth, her eyes glittered above them. ‘I’m going to take a shower. Would you mind, afterward, giving me a.