I wanted no observers when we met for the first time in so many years, so I suggested that Karen stay here in case the kids woke up. It was all for na...ght as Neica had been heavily sedated and wasn't awake when she was transferred to the ambulance. I followed it home and watched as the ambulance personnel brought her in and installed her in the hospital bed.My room was next to my wife's, but I spent the rest of the night sitting next to her. I stared at her face. She was a stranger to me. Her. ’ I breathed out these words trying to validly argue against what I truly wanted him to do. ‘I know that, and after you leave here I promise that you and your husband will be grateful this Christmas season.’ There goes the second button, and the third and the last. Upon revealing my red blouse and pleated black skirt, Mr. Nameless wrapped his warm hands around my waist and motioned me to follow him into the storage room behind the cashier’s desk. ‘Um, I have to at least know your name.’ I said,. As mentioned, the temperature had risen in the last few days and it was appreciably milder than in November, when she had first embarked on that magical voyage of self discovery which had led her to glory in her lovely young body as never before. Why had Adam and Eve ever got themselves thrown out of Eden?CHRISTMAS ON THE BEACH. KATIE MEETS AN OLD ENEMY AND MAKES TWO NEW FRIENDSThe tide was out - way out when she got to this, her favourite beach. An expanse of golden sand stretched out to the. Natty walked across the room until she was standing right behind the couch, her intent was to sneak up and surprise her grandson but when she reached the back of the couch it was she that was surprised instead. The first thing she saw was Billy looking at some sort of a magazine, a magazine whose pages were filled with men and women in all stages of undress and doing unimaginable things with each other, things that she and Charles had done with each other but not things that a seventeen year.