"I am not sure how I would feel about it if I liked this more than you,"I said."It's not a contest," Marissa replied, and snuggled in against mybreast.... I held her tight, and our legs intertwined. She was relaxed andcomfortable as i pulled the blanket up over us.Outside, the winter wind howled, but inside was a coziness we hadn't feltin years.I felt her toes tug at my pajama bottoms, pulling them down."You could ask," I said softly. "I could help." I'm not sure how much I want to ask, and now. “Umm, are you okay?” I said, in a voice barely above a whisper.“Jesus, Melanie, yes, I’m fine.”His face broke into a wide smile. “I think you broke something loose.”We arrived back at the Paris and checked the Mustang in at the valet station. We walked through the casino with James’s arm around me, holding me tight. I made a promise to myself that from then on I was going to ignore the looks and gawking of the people around me. I wasn’t going to let the judgmental attitude of others spoil my. DeClan looked up from the plans he had drawn out for the garden, setting them down on a table he had set out in the yard, he watched Collin striding across the courtyard and through the gate. DeClan nodded "Virlane" Collin nodded back "DeClan" trying not to sigh DeClan showed Collin into the study "I understand you wanted to talk to me, would you care for a drink?" Collin shook his head "let's set aside the idle chit chat DeClan I'm here to make an offer for these buildings and property, name. She was around 36 years old and her family has been looking for proposals for her for a few years now but nothing was materializing. She had an elder brother who was married with 2 kids and settled overseas and old father and mother who were retired.As she was always at home, whenever I went for tuition, she would be wearing around neck t-shirt and a long skirt.She always read books in preparation of the bank test, or some novel. She used to teach me in the dining room, where I used to sit at.