‘You did Father.’ Treabilla said with a proud smirk on her face that she tried to hide but did poorly at it. ‘Too well it seems.’ Lochel finis...ed with a light chuckle. ‘It’s alright Father, I have the Captain of the Guards to protect me.’ Treabilla said giving me a wink and a smile. ‘I’ll protect her as if she were my own wife sir.’ I replied confidently and quickly. ‘Quite.’ Lochel chuckled for a moment and then turned serious and lightly glared at me. ‘Just remember that she’s not!’ Lochel. “Katie, I have to warn you if we don’t stop talking about this, if we let it keep going I’m going to end up casting all my reservations away. I’m slipping down that slope I told you about where pleasure overrules your mind.” Mark takes another swig. “We should probably stop.“ Katie sits up straighter, “No daddy. Please. Tell me. I want to know. I don’t care about the slippery slope.” Katie looks into her dads eyes, “I’m ok daddy. I want you to let loose.” “Katie, you have to promise me you. The conversation got me so hot I decided to turn the tables and told Rob that the more the merrier and to speak with all six of them but to only let on to her that two would be coming with him.I spoke to him the night before and he told me all six would make it and Suzy was none the wiser thinking that she was going to surprise me by having two additional guys join us for my homecoming. Rob went to our house to be there while Suzy picked me up from the airport and to let the two guys (she knew. She smiled, thinking of Old Nick and Geogianna, still absorbed in loving each other after two hundred years together. Magical, it was, like a fairy tale, and she had been a part of it for just a while. How wonderful it was how Junior cared for his animals, those soft, gentle and affectionate reindeer, the loving relationship he had with his grandparents, the deep affection his friends the elves had for him, which had, at least in part, been transferred enough to serve her while she was.