She made me breakfast in bed - though that wasn’t technically necessary, she insisted - and fetched takeout for lunch, and she even cooked decent di...ners that, to me, were the best meals in the world. She worked that magic healing cream into my slowly fading welts and we made the sweetest love before we fell asleep each night, entangled with each other. It was a good thing that there were no lectures to attend anymore. I didn’t even want to start thinking about what these hard wooden seats. To make things right furniture shopping was going to happen after Christmas and there were no shortage of volunteers to help them set up a household.Jake was planning on the reactor contract lasting 5 years, a couple more years for monitoring and then retiring. Now two and a half years later that plan fell apart.I was relieved that he was coming home; spending that long with the radiation still leaking could not be good on the body no matter what the so-called experts said. I knew that Mom and. “There is a bond between soldiers that’s very strong and based on personal honor.”“Stronger than the bond between brothers, Mick?” Rory asked, raising his voice.I looked at Rory. The look in his eyes showed the depth of my insult. No, there was more than that, he was intensely and personally hurt.“Paul, you’ve hurt me as a man,” my youngest brother hit the mark with that one.“Rory, what sort of man trades wives with another man? I can’t get the sight out of my head of you banging away at Betty. The music was soothing, and all around her people were swaying to its rhythm. She didn't notice the dark eyes watching her from across the room nor the evil smile that curled around his lips.He walked up to her and asked for a dance, but she rejected him flatly. She didn't trust him, and she was right. There was something eerie about him, and she didn't like the way his eyes turned dark with anger and lust at her refusal.Libby did her best to have a good time with her friends. She had many.