) I Once upon a time Tracy had cared about the world she lived in… and the life she’d taken for granted for so long. But that world, like the life...she’d known so well, was gone… The people that had defined the contours of that life had vanished in a confused instant. Now she felt the remnants of that life – if at all – as a pale echo, almost like an old mirror shattered on cold, wet stone. She could look down onto the scattered fragments of her life and just make out the barest semblance of. .oh, hell, it's complicated, okay?" "So what do I tell the people inside the church, waiting on you?"Brian asked. He looked back at the church, but a cyclone fence with stripsof material like they use on Venetian blinds blocked the view of all butthe upper half. Okay, nobody knew Scott was out here. "If you want to takeoff right now, I can say you called me on my cell and your car was in anaccident or something." Scott shook his head firmly. "No. No, I love Suzette and I'm going tomarry. Marlene kissed her softly. ‘I’m delighted I had the opportunity to share such a wonderful experience with you,’ she murmured. ‘You are magnificent, Carlotta, so lovely…’ Carlotta realized her boss still had her nightgown on. She also realized she’d been selfish. Miss Arlington had given her so much pleasure and she’d given the lovely woman nothing in return. She found herself wanting to give her gorgeous employer the same kind of pleasure she’d received from her. ‘What…what about you?’ Carlotta. She was so kind and generous, always thinking of the other person. And she was a great lover. She could turn me into Jell-o just by looking at me. We had a wonderful sex life together. Yes, I miss her so much, but that doesn’t excuse what I did. It has nothing to do with my lack of judgment,” I told her.“But I think it does,” she inserted. “If Grandma was still alive, would you be spying on me like you did?”“Well, no. She would have beat the hell out of me if she knew,” I said in only a.