" Is there anything we can do?" Lorraine said, cutting in."I don't think so, no," Nick said smiling. "But thank you for the offer."Tony caught his att...ntion with a wave and pointed towards the door where Elspeth and Briana emerged into the car park.They stood up and started to walk over, but the two girls stopped and held the door as Ally and Marcus came out with Shawna and then Hope trailing after. Nick moved quickly leaving Tony and Lorraine to follow him as he engulfed Ally in a hug that. After supper was finished, Mary showed them around their house while I bathedthe baby and put him to bed. Edith came into the nursery as I was putting himin bed and told me, " You make a good mother Tricia." I blushed and said, " Thankyou ma'am." She also told me, " I notice your voice is much higher and sweeterthan it used to be." I didn't tell her that it had changed shortly after mytesticles had been killed, but smiled sweetly and thanked her. Seeing themagain reminded me of when I used to. They had both called her the day before. I had recommended my mother to both of them as a source of a divorce lawyer and the source of a prom dress respectively. She had spoken with them at length and had invited them along on the shopping trip she was taking today with Carla and my sister Paula. On top of that, she invited them to the dinner party. The party was to be only the six of us, with cocktails promptly at six in our solarium. I was having dinner with five of the most beautiful women. Random syllables came out of her mouth—she didn’t know even what she was failing to say.“Can’t take it…” she finally managed. “Too much…”“You’re fine.” The syntax of an order, the connotation of an encouragement.Regardless, he was right. Once more, he knew her better. She was melting under the onslaught, but she was fine. She couldn’t imagine what life had been like or would be like without having this man fucking her. She just knew—so did the rest of the world—that something was coming for.