It was her eyes that always got me, though. Still bright blue and beautiful. It was her eyes that had my attention when she reached up to caress my fa...e, smiling serenely. ‘You look so like your father. So handsome. My lovely boy.’ She moved closer. I opened my arms to accept her and and embraced me snugly, pressing her face into my neck with a sigh. ‘I love you,’ she murmured. ‘I love you too,’ I replied, a little lost. I wondered what Carla was doing, if she was making some more coffee. If…. “No point in using the guest room tonight,” I told Marie, “you’ll be sleeping in with us.”She said nothing but followed me into my bedroom with Sherri in tow. I gestured for Sherri to kneel down by the side of the bed and she did so willingly, her legs almost buckling as she did so. She’d had her fun and now it was my turn. And maybe a little more for Marie as well, to reward her for her evening’s work. I asked her to help me out of my dress and she did so eagerly, releasing the fastening at. You put your time and money into raising all of them. It's not fair for me to just take this one away from you without giving you something in return." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a hundred. "Thank you, Eric. If I run across anyone else looking for a puppy, I'll be sure to send them over to you."Eric took the money and shook Daddy's hand. "You're welcome,..." John." John. And thank you."Daddy let go of his hand and said, "Sure thing. Come on, Laurie. See if you can get Posie to. We could all see the hooded sons of bitches coming every single time.Even so, they were some dogged fighters, unyielding and eager to attack rather than defend constantly. This enemy didn’t retreat, but cost him more and more manpower by the day, even by the hour. He was the most aggressive foe yet, filled with hate and malice, it was clear to me, but it was also a fatal blunder to carry on so fanatically. His courage was suicidal bravado, little more than that.This Imperial Wizard’s style was.