My ex-wife’s mother.”“Polygamy’s illegal in Mexico, too, but I guess as long as you don’t formalize it, there’s no crime. No laws are brok...n. I gather that they’re not exactly good Catholic girls, though, if they’re sleeping with a divorced man. Not that it matters. I’m a rotten Catholic girl myself. For a Jew, you keep getting stuck with bad Catholic girls, don’t you? Just an observation. Did I ever tell you that Chloe’s father was Jewish, too?” Nadine continued rambling, which made Ned a bit. None of it does.”“I used to think that,” Abbie said. “Well, except with regard to music. Then someone loved me and I learned to be loved. And then, suddenly, everything had meaning. All of life.”“More biochemistry,” Elizabeth said.“No, it’s deeper than that,” Abbie argued. “And I think you can never know it until someone truly loves you. And something in the Bible that I heard but never understood completely makes sense.”“God is love,” Michelle said, completing the thought.“There is no god,”. Still I was not given any rest. Caesar seemed captivated by me andrequested that I perform the dance of veils. As I danced around thestage, men would pull away one veil at a time until finally I was nakedin front of them. The man pulling the last veil won my sole attentionfor the rest of the evening. That, of course, happened to be Caesar.At the end of the evening I expected to be led back to the Embassy'sAncilla compound. Instead, Michael and Caesar had a quiet conversationand announced. Nadiya, meanwhile, boiled some potatoes and prepared to poach kippers to eat for supper."You and CC seem very close..." ventured Denise."I love him," Nadiya said simply."So..." Denise prompted, when Nadiya didn't say any more.The other girl looked at her. "CC ... and Pippa Henderson, who owns Serendipity with CC ... saved my life. With Cherry Thornton, who was Skippering Serendipity at the time. That was before CC and Pippa's father bought this boat." Nadiya turned back to the stove."Oh?" Then,.