In my half drunk state they appeared like angels but as my night vision gradually improved I could see that they were in fact our two wives, dressed i... nothing but the hotel’s short white bathrobes.Alice’s hair had been let down and brushed until it fell smoothly over her shoulders. Hilary wore a band that held her hair back from the features of her pretty face, on which any age lines were completely invisible.Both the girl’s robes were hanging open, the naked bodies within tantalisingly. My eyes felt wide and my heart beat fast. All of a sudden I didn’t want mommy to know the secret, I wanted to pretend. I looked over at her and she was looking at him.


“Stop. Let her go. I was by bad about the beer. I’ll go get it. I swear.”


“Why bother? We’ve got bitch beer, and a bitch right here to drink it.”


His fist circled my small arm and yanked me over to the couch. Mom crumpled on the floor and kept asking him to stop. He did not.

He uncorked the bottle and thrust the fruity. “Sorry,” Jaeger said, taking a step back and patting Scratcher on the shoulder. “I kept asking after you, but they wouldn’t tell me shit. Glad to see you’re still in one piece.”“More or less,” Scratcher replied, gesturing to his bandaged arm. “Caught it on the edge of the cockpit on my way out, turned the bones to powder. Luckily, it didn’t breach the suit, or I’d have to get one of those prosthetic limbs that the station chief is so proud of. Looks like I’m gonna be grounded for a few. "Leading Sally into an identical examination room next door, except thatit was geared towards grownups, Thomas continued once the door was safelyshut. "Okay, clearly there were a lot more complications and symptomspopping up in the last few weeks then you told me, so I want a fulloutline of everything that has happened with Joe in the last week after Isay just one more thing."Thomas turned to Sally and let his anger drop for a moment as he lookedinto her eyes and said, "I think this is the.