Content to reach out and hold onto Miranda with a slight smile crossing her face from time to time. A still, unmoving monument to deep contentment and...a beautiful reminder of the love they both shared. Only now, she was alone. Her hand reaching out to where her beloved had been, her fingers desperately gripping at one of Miranda's overstuffed pillows, and looking so forlorn that it nearly broke Miranda's heart to simply leave her there."I love you," whispered the courier, her hand clenched and. She came from a family of five (including her two older siblings Jessica and Maria).The Wild Coyote was a condominium of four apartment blocks. The biggest was Block A, having 8 floors, 6 apartments and 2 storage rooms per floor, 2 elevators, and 2 staircases. That was where Gabriella lived, on the eight floor.The other blocks B, C and D merely had 3 floors and 6 apartments.But overall, the Wild Coyote had a swimming pool, a sauna, a bar, a gymnasium and a playground, with a ping pong. Her jaw dropped as she read the top page. ‘Count the Stars, by Luke Thornton.’ She looked up at him. ‘It’s your novel. You finished it?’ ‘I did.’ Luke gave in to a yawn. ‘Remember when I told you it would flow? Well, it did. Like a river. If it weren’t for Sol dragging me out to work, I might have just kept going.’ ‘No wonder you look so tired.’ She reached up and stroked his cheek, he caught her hand and pressed a kiss to her palm. ‘It was worth it. At least I think it was.’ He led her over to. He had drunk domestic beer when he preferred imported lager. He had lived off the base, when she had asked, so she would be closer to her workplace.He had given up his mid-size pickup so that they could have a part-time maid. Nevertheless, the time for giving and consideration was over. She was determined to only take and not care about his needs at all. His guilt over the damage to her career from his occasional change in stationing was gone. That guilt had been a major advantage of hers in.