I really do need a CPA. You are welcome to live there with us – either until you find your own place or permanently. Of course Sophie would be welco...e to join the girls for be home-schooling." Rachel visibly relaxed.I paused, but couldn't keep the smile off my face as I said, "And the fact you're beautiful has nothing to do with my offer."Rachel blushed prettily and looked at me for a few moments. I wondered how long it had been since anyone had told her she was beautiful, because she was.. Karl had been right. The pool had a bottom that appeared to be composed of sand and worn-smooth, white river stones. He reached into the water to scoop up a handful of the polished and rounded stones as well as the equally light-colored sand. “Ten to one, this came out of a stream around here. That man put in many hours on this pool alone, let alone all the landscaping that went into this whole thing.”“Baby?” Dessie began to ask as the two stopped long enough for Phillip to move the little. I met her after I moved to Kansas City to take a job with a local television news show. Susan was a reporter and I was a weather man. She was 29 when we met (36 now). She is 5'6" 118lbs with long red hair and blue eyes, and it was love at first sight. Her career was more impressive than mine and she ended up getting a big break and got a promotion as a sports reporter in Atlanta.We moved to Atlanta in 2000 and I became Mr. Mom for our 3 year old daughter, and she worked as a local sports. Which makes her my, my ... well whatever it is, we are related. She’s my mum’s favorite cousin, and now that my parents live in Holland, has decided she’s my de facto mother. Oh yes, and Philip the cricketer is her son which makes him my ... oh hell, I’ve no idea.She was one of the reasons we had decided to buy the cottage in the village, and why we’d been accepted into the community so easily. It also gives her the right, so she believes, to treat me like an errant son.We sat in silence while.