However, why should Josephine care? She smiled at Emma, whose face was inches from her own as Charlotte sighed in quiet ecstasy while her two lovers l...zily engaged their attention around her lower regions. She looked up at the woman to whom she had announced her paternity and felt overwhelmed by the strength of the passion and love that was projected. She felt thoroughly unworthy of such devotion, particularly as she was still hiding her own infertility and therefore inequality in the two. "She nodded dumbly, knowing that he spoke the truth. She had seen the shadows left behind by the passing of the sun, and she had recognized their power and their beauty.He continued, pausing only slightly to let her gaze drift to the waters below them and to the dark figures, she knew not if they were plant or animal, which dotted the shore. His hand held hers, and her fingers tightened their grip around his palm. Her pulse fluttered in her wrist, and he could feel the desire course through her. " That's OK," she said. "I'll be happy as long as we are in bed together."By then we had reached the top of the stairs and headed for my parents bedroom. I shut the door, turned on a bedside lamp on a night table next to the bed and turned off the overhead light. I pulled the bedspread down, pulled back the covers and boosted Lisa into the bed. Then I followed Lisa into bed. As she scooted over to snuggle with me, I turned off the light. I turned to Lisa and kissed her gently. I was lying on my. ’ ‘That gives us custody,’ Dani said. ‘What about the adoption?’ ‘That’s a different issue,’ Martin said, ‘and to be honest, I don’t have much hope for it. Adoption would involve having Julie’s parental rights terminated completely, and I don’t see that happening. We know Julie wouldn’t sign over her rights voluntarily, and I don’t think, from what I know of her background and her current circumstances, that there would be any legal ground for the court to terminate her rights. I think right.