..And then losing Burt. Thank God, it didn't happen, but I knew in my heart it was going to as I watched him waste away to practically nothing from th...t damned cancer. My strong, handsome man turned into a weak skin-covered skeleton right before my eyes.Dreamer and his cave gave me back both my men. There's no doubt Val went in there to die and Burt was practically dead when he made Val and Bev take him there and that neither of them should have come out alive. When the three of them came out. She slipped out of the cape and into the nightshirt. It was tight on her but in all the right places.Stephanie's friend really didn't want to hang out in the basement again, particularly since there wasn't anything real to do but thumb through some outdated magazines. Kim circled her friend's room, seeing if there was anything there to kill time with. There really wasn't anything. A few romance paperbacks and a stack of CD's but nothing to play them on. Steph's television was fastened to the. . square chin and a dimple in it.His crew had accosted the family earlier in the day ... before the weather turned sour ... in the affray, Comte LeToureneau had succeeded in pinking two of the members before the villains fled. Now, he lay wounded in the mud of the road and Vivienne, the daughter, was struggling in the arms of the pirate chieftain. Handsome he may be, but he was, besides a bastard of the bar, a dastard of the first water.Suddenly, it wasn't raining. The watch had a rain shield. I hope you don’t mind that I hope they’re together now.” Dag was going to marry Cali Marx’s mother? Damn!“Of course, Miss Marx. Uh ... If you’ll forgive me, Dag had an envelope in his vault with your name on it but it doesn’t have an address. If you’re staying in town, I could have it couriered to you.”“I’m still not ready. Are you continuing his ... business?”“Yes. I was his partner and inherited the bulk of his estate.”“I paid Dag a retainer to keep that envelope until I need it. Can I trust.