I rubbed my chin and thought about going for a shave but I quite liked the rugged look and I couldn’t be bothered anyway. On this hot summer’s day...I went back downstairs to the living room where Amy was lying stretched out on the couch wearing one of them silky tops that barely contained her breasts. I know I shouldn’t have stared but when you haven’t had intimate female contact in quite a while and she didn’t wear a bra it was hard not to look. My eyes lingered for a moment, fixed on her body.. Fernando is gone; only Felice remains.Felice. The name meant happiness", but the first days at the station had been a nightmare. One of the men had only to look at her, and her body took control. She acted the part of the seductress no matter how hard she tried to fight it.Then the erotic spell was gone. But Felice discovered that she had become physically addicted to her new lovers. It began as an itch in her groin or a tingling in her breasts. It grew stronger as she tried to. ”The look on Dallo’s face—one of fear—had made her curious. From the time her mother had died until Katrin and her brother Barz had run away to Circle Bay, Dallo had been the only authority that mattered. She’d always been afraid of him before, but, she suddenly realized, that was no longer true. She could protect herself now. Maybe not from everything, but certainly from someone like him. If she could make howling snow beasts fall asleep in the middle of a battle, Dallo wasn’t a threat.And she. "It's Thanksgiving. We have a lot to be thankful for, and mostly it's our wonderful family. And our wonderful luck. Let's drink to that."After dinner, the men watched football. The women cleaned up the kitchen, having shooed the men away to their television. Eventually they sat around the table with beer and popcorn.Sigrid said, "Heather, I don't think I told you. I talked with your mother on Labor Day about having babies." I assume she was in favor of that? That's how she makes her living..