“I will beat him up if you want me to.” Claire laughed.Emily shook her head, “No. God no.”“You love him?” Claire crossed her arms, “Sis ...�� you might be the oldest of us, but your nineteen. You aren’t ready for this.”“I am.” Emily insisted. “I love him – more than anything in the world. I want to carry his child.”“You sure.”Emily nodded.“All right Sis – I hope he is a great guy.”“The best.”Claire hopped up, “We are here for you. I look forward to meeting my niece – or nephew.”“I’ll name ‘em after. ?gI will!?h she said thickly, offering up the worn collar in her cupped hands. All watched silently as Morgan took the collar and buckled it gently about the bowed neck. Picking up his dog's old leash, he clipped it to his woman's collar and tugged on it gently, bidding her stand upright. Now nothing would do but that they be married forthwith, first by the rites of the White Christ, as was befitting amongst Christians, and then in the name of Lludd the Open-Handed as was the ancient way of. .. " Chantal exclaimed.She glanced at the sinfully-expensive fur wrapped luxuriantly around my body."... in so many things," she finished.I nodded slowly."Thank you," I replied in a subdued voice."Where is Dianna?" she asked, turning her head from side to side, looking for my lover."A date," I stated simply.Perhaps it was the way my body tensed, or the inflection in my voice. My new girlfriend knew immediately."Oh, my," she stated quietly. "I know where this is going. Can you talk about it yet?. Most local business tycoons have shrewdly made terms with the new regime, which calls itself the Garden State Alliance, but has no one fooled at all.“The police, the remaining puppet DAs, the city governments, governor, etc. They’re all under the guiding hand of the Leadership Council of the GSA. Democrats, Republicans, both have cravenly yielded to the GSA’s power and joined its ranks. It’s a one-party state now, all other parties are banned, and the one party is the GSA, which is just the.