. " Jack trailed off again as Denise hugged him to her chest."Baby... I'm so sorry... I don't know that there's anything I can say beyond that. Are yo... ok? Is there anything I can do," babbled Denise as she hugged Jack fiercely.Jack shook his head and didn't say anything. It took Denise a minute to realize that he was sobbing into her chest. She held him tightly as he slowly recovered."Sorry," he said quietly as he gently pushed back and looked up at her. "I wasn't ready to deal with this. I.... She was quickly carried to the House, and the Guild Master awakened. Martha immediately sent for the capital’s leading physicians. Then with foreboding, she sent a runner for me. She need not have bothered. I had already been alerted by the Commander of the City Guard, and I arrived at the house shortly after the physicians.Martha was as near hysterics, as I had ever seen her. She cringed when I came through the door, as well she should have. I was dressed in black with my sword on, and a. " He gave me a wink and a nod -- and he spread the word, obviously, because women started drifting our way to the point that it was sometimes hard for me to keep track of Rachel and Shannon during fast dances. There were three or four disgruntled boyfriends, but they tended to vent on their dates for being mercenary, not on me. We went home after midnight and Shannon rode me energetically, then Rachel re-inflated my erection with her mouth and I drove her, missionary-style, and crashed on her. I was just turning onto our street when I saw Meredith backing out of the driveway. In the conversation that we'd had just before I'd left, not ten minutes before, she'd said she was going to spend her evening sitting in front of the fireplace catching up on her reading. Had something come up, or had she lied to me. Curious, I followed her and ten minutes later she pulled into the drive at Mike and Amy's. She got out of her car and went into the house - didn't knock or ring the bell, just.