Why now?’ The handsome man took a breath. ‘It’s been very hard, cherie. Too hard to come by and see that beautiful face of yours and know that y...u can’t see me. I’ve lain awake at night and cried over your loss.’ He took Chantal’s hand and rubbed her fingertips in the tear tracks that now striped his cheeks. ‘I did not mean to cheat on you, Chantal. It’s just that with you being so beautiful and I wasn’t allowed to touch you … ‘ He released a sob when her fingers cupped his cheek. ‘All I want. I jerked. He continued to jolt strikes into me with a lot of power. He is strong.Every time, I have to hold on my throat to suppress my cry. After a bunch of such strokes, he leaned forward, stretched my hands up, and rolled on top of me. He is heavy, and I had to take heavy breaths to carry his weight. He couldn’t stretch all the way down because his belly is obstructing him.He, however, reached my lips and arrested them with his. This is his first kiss to me. His beard is poking my nose and. " I thought we needed the dark." Sophie countered."We do — I was looking at hitting the place at about ten o'clock to give me time enough to scout around." And now?" Caerys wondered."It's winter — it starts to get dark around four o'clock here. By seven it'll be just as dark as at ten." And then we go in?" Then I go in," he clarified. "You wait outside." Same thing." Sophie rested a hand on his shoulder, with surprising warmth. "Same thing."Dunfermline, Fife, December 10thGabriel scrolled. ’ ‘With whom?’ Oliver snorted. ‘I dunno. I could give ya ten names, they’d all be as likely.’ ‘Not Emma Wallis then?’ Oliver shrugged and took a sip of his hot chocolate. ‘No idea. I reckon Ian, he was always ‘anging around and he ‘ad guns an’ all. But Jamie wouldn’t tell the filth so whoever it was got the money and Jamie got jail.’ Chrissy licked her lips and tapped away. ‘Tell me about your family?’ Oliver peered into his chocolate. ‘There’s nowt to tell,’ he said and then proceeded to spend.