"Ahem," We heard from behind us. Ellen was there and she had a funny look on her face.I left Carolyn for a second and rushed up to Ellen."Hi honey." I...gave her a passionate kiss. She kissed me back hard."I still love you just as much as I always have, trust me."She smiled and broke down crying as well. All 3 of us were kissing each other passionately. Both ladies were still crying and I was also having trouble keeping my eyes dry."Wow," said Carolyn."Yeah, wow," said Ellen."There oughta be a. My uncle had ownedseveral businesses. He was a majority shareholder in the dress shop. "Ineeded additional finance to get the business going, and for him it was aconvenient place to obtain the things he liked to wear."And a few months ago he had apparently made me a partner. I rememberedthat he had asked me to come to the apartment and sign some papers. Ihadn't been interested in what they were, but now it transpires I owned40% of the dress shop.My Aunt and Mrs Roberts had been an item back in. By trying to avoid hurting you, I hurt you worse than if I’d just been straight with you from the beginning.”“And that makes sense to you. So why is the concept from your book so difficult to grasp?”“Because I’m fucking sick and tired of being hurt!” I said forcefully.“Didn’t you once tell me about something you said to Becky after Birgit died? About life being suffering?”“Yeah, I was thinking back to that whole conversation with Becky. Actually, to everything that happened five years ago.”“You. Taking a couple of deep breathes she continued, 'two days after it, I was stuck in the position of being alone and Mike was close by. I found out later he had stolen all the evidence that could link me to the event so he could blackmail me with it. He started by forcing me to do what he wanted, he forced me to strip naked for him, and then made me undress him.'One of the girls said, 'are you talking about the same Mike you now love?''Oh yes, it all changed while I was undressing him, he made it.