Then she wouldn’t have had to sacrifice herself. He had no idea what would make the normally self-centered pixie give up everything for him. He knew...she loved his dad, but himself…? Now he had to live with the guilt that her death was his fault. If Mandy were still in the room, he feared what his father might say. What truths hid behind his grief? How much did he blame Eldon?“No,” Gloria whispered as she folded him in her arms. Part of him wanted to push her away. He was supposed to be a man. Trying to show some interest I asked Jon who was winning. His reply didn’t make much sense to me, but just for a bit of a laugh I said, “I bet the red car wins.” Jon took me up on the bet, which I eventually lost. Jon was happy when he told me that I had lost and told me that as the forfeit, I would have to do something special for him. Nothing really different there, as I always do what Jon tells me, whatever he asks. Jon kept me waiting for about a month before I had to pay my forfeit.. I wish I hadn't. Seeing oneself on television is embarrassing, even when there's no one else in the room. Afterwards, I took a shower just to relax myself. Then I realised I was likely to be late for Keith at the Golf Club. I was about to excuse myself from phoning Molly on the grounds that it would make me late, when I thought what Carole would say in the morning. I dialled the number.Thank Goodness, it was her and not him that answered."Hello Molly, it's me, Chris."I could feel a wave of. S mentioned at the bottom when she comes back to the cubicle, bends down and plants a kiss right on my cheeks….the excitement suddenly broken by a gasp! from one of my female team members. Seems in my atrocity to act defiant I had mentioned things one too many…asking a kiss to be used to seal the contents…. What followed was hours of conversation between us which finally got solemnized by an act of sinful disclosure. We treated the company as a second home spending as much time together as we.