Celeste, as in celestial, as in heavenly. She turned to face me, smiling her gorgeous smile, her eyes sparkling in the starlight, and she asked what ... was looking at in the sky. "Nothing," I replied, "nothing that compares to you...." We got dressed and then noticed the time. Oh my G-d. We had been in the parking lot for over an hour. My daughter would soon be getting out of class and looking for me. I had never made it back home after dropping her off, and I would have to explain that as. Portia stared blankly at the top of her cluttered desk. She tried tothink about how she would phrase the news she was going to break toJeff. She was certain it would be the most unpleasant conversation shehad to take part in since she was elevated to a management position.Portia leaned back in her chair while she pondered about how she wouldtell her top salesman that he was no longer going to fit into thecompany's plans. While she had terminated people before, that was jobrelated. My husband Troy being in the Army is way most of the year, but on one particular occasion he had an overseas mission and he could not write to me for security reasons, so I didn’t hear from him for almost two months, one particular day I was feeling really depressed and all sorts of things run through your mind, could he be dead, would they tell me straight away if he was, it gets to you a bit sometimes and his dad either rings me or calls in from time to time to check up on me, he is a. Let's get back to the house."Jacob was dead tired by the time they got back to the ranch house. He was a strong boy but he wasn't used to riding and working stock for 14 to 16 hours at a time. Maggie rushed off the porch and hugged her son, glad to have him home safe. Daniel tried to get by with just patting Jacob on the shoulder but couldn't help himself; he pulled the boy to him with a big hug and a kiss on the top of Jacob's head. He offered to take care of Jacob's horses for him.Jacob.