When I came to, I found the nurse bending over me checking myvitals, she got a scare - dead men are not supposed to revive. Adoctor was summoned, imme...iately, just to be asked a zillionquestions and no information being given to me. The police werecalled, a detective, who was on the case, arrived bearing a wholelist of desires and questions. I had several hours before theinterrogations began, I was able to gather my thoughts and give adetail account of what happened. From the time I had been. ”“Alice, tell Michelle that’s she’s off duty until I’ve talked to her.” He pointed at the monitor. “Mr. Stein is leaving now. Would you catch him and give him my message before he gets out of here?”“Of course, Jake,” she said and she hurried out of the office.Jake stared at the monitors for a minute. Alice appeared in one, running after and catching up with Stein as he walked through the foyer. At one point, he looked at her appraisingly, and Alice smiled at him invitingly. Jake tried to shrug. He thought about, asked Junior about going away but was quickly shot down."I'm waiting for Mom to come back," he told his father. Kent had to hold back from crying in front of his son. And didn't have the heart to tell him that his mother would not be coming back. He knew he had to do it sometime but Junior was only a little over three and couldn't stay quiet on the subject for very much longer.Erin heard the heavy breathing of a large animal close to her lair. Her head popped up at the first. If we start holding back our feelings from each other, we’re just repeating the same stupid mistake we started making in eighth grade.”“What are you saying?”“I have no idea,” I said. “Remember what I said about this being more difficult than I thought it would be? It is.”“You want to keep playing house?”“No. Remember what I said. Either we’re a couple or we aren’t. Let me ask you this - how are you going to feel in the Fall when you see Melody and me together? When she sleeps in my room a few.