I couldn?t believe what had happened, or that I wasn?t able to see it happening! I looked at her with a look of disbelief, unable to comprehend the wh...le thing. The first thing that came to mind was . . . ?Why?? I asked, my voice sounding like the high, soft lilt of a sexy woman for the first time to my ears. I knew the change to my voice must have been as slow and hard to notice, just as the rest of my change had been.?You wanted to be more than friends to me, and like I told you, I?m a. The girls could have stepped off the Pro Bball courts except ... they were FIT ... not skinny beanpoles ... Amazons. Not anyone a mugger would like to meet in an alley. Big, dangerous looking ... in a feminine way. Girls you’d like to take home to meet the parents one minute and the Chicago Bears the next.“Well, Troop ... it looks like he was talking to them,” said the Sergeant.There are times to speak out and there are times to acquiesce. The trooper KNEW that the fella hadn’t been talking to. I could see that my father was impressed but my mother was only worried about smothering Sarah with hugs and oooing and aahing over her. My father muttered something about taking over his portfolio.I guess money talks because the discussion went in a new direction. My father stopped talking about the negative aspects of the situation and began talking about how we could make my plan happen. He asked if I was willing to spend the money necessary for the legal fees and when I nodded he told me. You’re Eli’s girl?” Sam asked, already off the counter and walking toward Kit.“Yep, I am and I’m going to marry that grandson of yours one day too.”“Where is that boy? I knew there was something about you two redheaded girls that I was missing.”“Here I am, Grandpa,” Eli said, walking through the door with Isaac as both of them laughed at the prank Kit and Ruby pulled on them.“ELI! I should have known sooner. I just couldn’t put it all together,” Sam Connor said as he rushed over to hug his.