"Well, I had nothing to do with it. After Bev and Millie took your order Brian, apparently Conway said something to Millie. It's not very often that M...llie gets upset, but when she came back in here she was really throwing her toys out of the pram. I think Conway was lucky she never had any beer in her hand when he said it. I've only seen Millie get annoyed like that with a couple of blokes, both of them got a beer shower and one took an unexpected bath as well." Feisty little one, is she?". He also couldn't see how what was buried before him was his love.It couldn't be. Kelly had been life. Kelly had been fun. She had been snuggles under a blanket as they watched TV nude in the dead of winter.That Kelly was dead. This was nothing more than ... a memorial.He closed his eyes. Kelly. Four years. You'll move on, they said. Move on from what? Loving her? Why would he ever want to do that?"I miss you." He spoke it aloud, as if she could hear the words. As if spoken thoughts carried more. “Earlier, I was rude to you, and honestly, I hated it. It was a horrible feeling. When you refused to give me a blowjob, something bad awoke inside me, and I’m not sure what happened next. I remember everything, but I feel like it wasn’t me.”“It all started when we met this morning. When I first saw you and judged your personality by your behavior, I automatically became hostile. But I want you to know that I’m not normally like that; hostile and aggressive.”It finally makes sense, he’s not. Masturbation just wasn’t getting the job done. Itbrought temporary relief, but couldn’t make a dent inher overall agitation. Something had to give.One night in late April, something finally did. It was one of those mammoth spring thunderstorms. Windand rain lashed at the Bower household, and thunder crashed loudly in response to the streaks of lightingthat momentarily made the night like day. Earlier, and before the storm, no less than three mares had goneinto heat, and Colette had been present.