I never saw her toy but I did manage to see her nude again. Twice I stood by the bed and admired her curves as she slept. Those two nights I seduced m... wife which was my unspoken explanation for having an erection when I went to bed. The next Friday night Charlotte was out with friends, Pearl took the twins to an Avengers movie so I was alone. I gravitated to my daughter’s room and sat at the desk and her laptop. I opened the computer and booted it. In moments I was looking at ‘password’. Hmm,. He stopped to sip his pint for emphasis.“So, they send some officers out there and they find him and somethin’ like twenty guys blitzed out on a hundred guys’ worth of vodka!”Everyone laughed. Luc was the first to speak.“I’d imagine they were all shot the same day.” He mused.“That’s the best bit!” Mander added. “They were GONNA shoot him, but they COULDN’T! Because that very morning, back in Moscow, Stalin had declared him a Hero of the Soviet Union for not losing a single man in months! So now. ‘That is not at all how it has been. Your father and I, we may not have agreed in many things but … we both wanted for you to be happy and … to be safe.’ He tried to wrap his arms around her again, watching her hug her body and rub her arms for comfort. She shrugged his touch off though, stepping away. ‘Your father was a wise man.’ ‘Don’t you dare talk about him as if he was dead already!’ ‘He was aware, that as an aristocrat, as an officer of the Wehrmacht any association of mine would be. She knew she was being raped.Tom went to Union Station that morning to meet Alison as she arrived in Toronto. He had been given a description by her friend, short, 5’ 2”, 100 pounds, brunette, and would be wearing a bandana over her hair and carrying a large backpack. He forgot if it was a red or blue one, and several girls fitting the description seemed to magically appear at the station. But when he saw her, he knew she was the one.“Alison?”“Yes. Are you Tom?”“Glad to meet you,” as they shook.