To keep Nancy comfortable in any way I could. Alas, all too often that has meant providing her with material things. I wanted so much to help her ri...ht now, but I felt so powerless. That feeling was eating me alive from the inside out.Heading towards the job, all sorts of thoughts started racing through my head. There was a bar on the corner of the block where I worked. I thought about having a drink again. It had been nearly twenty years since I had a drink. I actually walked to the bar. Go on out and I will bring your coffee out to you. It should be warm enough – the sun has burned away the morning chill. We slept late!”Eve glanced at the clock on the wall and forgot to be miffed about the snoring comment. 11am she thought incredulously? I don’t think I’ve ever slept until 11am.“We must have tired each other out,” Cade laughed, as he finished buttering the toast and added the plate to a tray he had set up. He watched her as her cheeks reddened in that familiar blush that was. Thank god for four wheel drive and, best of all, I had two external five-gallon tanks of extra gasoline. I bumped and bounced for more than an hour, but could see nothing except another ridge, another valley and another ridge melding into a steady stream of the same thing over and over. The road had been leveled at one time or another, but it had long since deteriorated and was bumpy and loose and the drop off on my right side went down forever. Bad business.To make it worse it was beginning. "Once the FIBS was on, Robert opened the browser in the Head's Up Display (or HUD) and began the diagnostics routines. While waiting for the 'nostics to finish running, and with half an eye on the output log, he logged into the 'Net and into the foyer for his ISP. The logo floated in 3-D while he waited for it to authenticate and authorize his login. His mail queue was nearing quota, but that wasn't why he was there. He really needed to get home, and he needed to get home now!Elise was sitting.