While Gérard tended to the horses, Sandrine and Amélie moved forward on their own to see the circle. Now, in the sunlight dappled with clouds, the s...ones appeared innocuous. They stood at the edge of a small meadow surrounded almost entirely by forest and away from the road and the pasture where they had stopped the carriage.The circle, if it could be termed such, was an irregular one, and the stones, almost all of them taller than man-size, tilted at one angle or another. In the years since. Suddenly her mind flashed with what his cock might look like with that golden hair surrounding it. Her green eyes went wide at the direction of her thoughts. He was smiling at her, his blue eyes sparkling with amusement and something else. The moment grew more intimate somehow and he circled her waist with is arm and pulled her to him. "How about a reward for saving the day?" he said as he bent his head and kissed her. At first she pressed against his chest, but he held her tight and she. I hugged her and after she said ‘hello’ to Melanie and Pete, we got sodas from the fridge and went to the basement to talk.“I’m sorry about the way I’ve been treating you,” I said. “I want to be friends again, to the point where I can rely on your advice.”“That’s really up to you, because you’re the one who sundered the relationship.”I took a deep breath to calm myself and let it out before answering.“I see it a bit differently. What you did sundered the relationship, I just confirmed what had. I asserted my need to take a break from all things Holden, but I never stopped looking for him. Most days, I waited for him to randomly ‘pop up’ and whisk me away to another home cooked meal—no such luck. Even today as I arrived at the library to study with Lara, I searched for his police cruiser as I walked through the parking lot, again, no such luck. After the first hour of pretending to study, I stopped hoping he’d show up. Lara brought me out of my internal brooding. ‘That doesn’t mean.