As she put down the phone Adam dropped his spoon and went under the table to find it. Cassie smiled again knowing how naughty Adam was being. She didn...��t spread her legs, which she knew he hoped so he would get a better peek. ‘Do you see it?’ She asked slyly. ‘What?’ he said. ‘The spoon, silly.’ ‘Oh yea I got it,’ Adam said as he slid back into his chair. Cassie could tell he was nervous by his voice, and wondered what he was thinking. Or what she was. Cassie and Adam talked awhile and she. I saw bad teeth, and bad lungs from smoking, Duc had a broken bone that had healed fairly well, but not perfectly. Lam had entered menopause, and could not bear any other children. Her bones were starting to weaken through a loss of calcium. Both suffered various stages of arthritis. Duc had a bad disk, in his spine. They both suffered from poor eyesight, necessitating glasses. In fact, they had needed glasses since coming to Canada.Being a doctor now, meant a little bit of confidentiality.I. "You will be, my sweet," he said, closing the door. "You will be."Dinner, for Crystal, was a dichotomy. It was somewhat of a letdown, in the sense that, while they talked about all kinds of things, none of them were anything more than casual conversation. He talked about where he grew up, and asked her questions about places she had been, and things she had seen, jobs she'd had and movies she liked. It was somewhat of a rush for her too, because, at one point, she realized he'd gotten more. Standing up he held her to him but against the tree so she couldn’t run away like he knew she wanted to. She looked so small and scared, so fragile and beaten. Crooning softly to her and trailing butterfly kisses across her shoulders, neck and face seemed to slowly calm her. Slowly, Clara realized that it was her jungle man that held her, firmly, but gently. Clara finally got control of herself and looked up at the man who had been talking softly to her, trying to calm her. She felt a small.