She started to exit the car but Emma immediately went to the passenger door and opened it; she hopped inside and slammed the door closed.“What happe...ed?” Jess asked with concern. She looked Emma over to see if she was hurt at all, but, of course, the injuries were only psychological.“Just drive,” she said sharply. “Please,” she added a moment later.Jess pulled away without any further question.They drove in silence for several minutes. Jess didn’t prod or pressure Emma to talk before she was. What a fool he was. Carol was flustered. She knew she looked good. She was hoping for a little more than, are you ready? She responded. ‘I’m ready. Where are we going?’ Bob didn’t hear her at first. He couldn’t stop staring. He walked over. He asked. ‘Would you kiss me?’ Carol didn’t know quite how to react to that question. She said. ‘Of course.’ Bob said. ‘I’m afraid to touch you. You’re so beautiful. You’re so God damned beautiful!’ He reached out and carefully wrapped her in his arms. He. Because of this danger, which also terrified the Countess who had spent most of her youth in the service of the commonweal, she assented to the Count's desire to wed the remaining women of the family as well as herself.It was further in the interests of the Crown that she also consented to her husband's admonition to take their twenty-year old brother Gerard as a secondary mate. Maximian was known to favor this proposition as a means to quench any possible jealousy on the part of his much. But it allowed her the freedom to do things with Rachel and their children in the afternoons."Bye, see ya later," came her parting words.Rachel continued to sit at the table thinking.She picked up the phone to call her friend, Richard. If she saw Richard this morning, it would almost certainly make her feel better.Rachel had met Richard about six-months earlier, just a casual thing, at a bookstore of all places.Rachel had been looking for a book to read to her's and Frank's eleven-year-old.
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