“Take it easy, babe ... don’t push yourself,” Ashley urged me as I tried to get around the kitchen during my recovery.“Yeah, be careful, dear,...�� Tracy encouraged me now.“Honey, we delayed Thanksgiving for you. It will happen tomorrow night, just over a week before Christmas. We want you to make it to the dinner, okay?” Karen said as she touched my face lovingly.“What she said,” Michelle agreed, “we love you, don’t you know? All of us do, you big stud!”“That we do, papi!” Carmen put in her two. My husband and I had occupied a room as a single resident unit and that meant that my fifty percent share was now one hundred percent and I was considering a move to a less expensive location but for the fact that I was suffering from a need for proximity to medical attention with regard to my long term problem with an erratic heartbeat. I had learned to cope with that fact and was quite careful about taking my medication and trying my best not to do anything to the extreme.I have to admit that. One thing you dont really want to do, is invite a single friend into your world, unless they have the mindset. I had this cute girlfriend, I finally got her talked into Swinging, I invite my best buddy. We had a great time, we got drunk and fucked all night, the next day, mind you, my buddy was sitting at the table, when I walked in from work, what the fuck are you doing here they both had that deer in the head lite look, I threw him out and a week later, she moved in with him. Another thing. Tough knight of the realm, Sir Thad may be, but Arrik remembered those nights as boys when Thad helped him with his nightmares about losing his father, King Bygord, when he was only five, while Arrik comforted his older cousin over the loss of his mother, the King’s sister just weeks before the King died in a chariot accident.The Queen was forbidden to see her son as it was deemed unsafe by the Regent, Arrik’s uncle, for both to be in the same place at the same time. Arrik had immediately been.