She never wanted to talk about it, so that’s about all I knew about it, but lately, she’d lamented the fact she was getting older and hadn’t sna...ged a guy yet.She surprised me by dropping by the office one afternoon when Kevin and I were having coffee in the Starbucks off the lobby of the building. I introduced them and immediately saw the flirtation start. It quickly grew from there.The quickness should have set off an alarm, I suppose, but I was happy for both of them. In a short time I was. You didn’t want to do anything else, anyway.”“Might’s well. Maybe they’re ready to go home. Who’d play music to swim?”“Or maybe they’re having a picnic. People we know might offer us a Coke or a slice of watermelon.”“I swear, Jack. Looking at you, I see arms and legs. Listening, all I hear is stomach.”“Tell me you would say ‘no’ to a slice of watermelon in this heat.”“Well, if it was offered. But I’m not sidling up to somebody else’s picnic hoping to feed my face.”“Out of the sun at. You would have had human children. And I have taken it all away. More tears blur my vision and my voice is raw. Then why, Asmodeus? Why did you bring me here? I beseech him, reaching up and holding his face in my hands. Anger clouds his features and I take a step back, hugging my arms close. I was weak! I was selfish! I brought you here not by my choice. I stole you because I simply had to have you, I saw her light in you. Selena, my soul met yours at the birth of humankind. A true testament of. Your wages if you like, inaddition to your 'bed and board'. Should you find that that's notenough you'll have to tell me so; but I'll need a lot of convincing.The fifty pounds is for you to be 'going on with'. I've made out a listof things for you to buy tomorrow as a starter, but from now on that'llbe your responsibility. The secret is in planning. Now we'd better getalong, the girls will have just about got supper ready by now and I, atleast, am ready for it. Don't forget, we three will be up.