Looking at my image in the mirror, I had to admit, I looked good. The men were going to have fun.I opened the door for Sanjay, and the air condition i... the corridor made my skin goose bumped and my nipples stood up. Through the light night gown, they looked like a twin mountain peaks. Sanjay stood with open mouth that made me blush and be happy at the same time. Boy, can you say I love the attention!Since Sanjay was off shift, he and Vijay sat while I became their server for the night. I served. I certainly don’t want to do anything that upsets his new relationship with his father. Besides, I’m not completely sure it’s happening at all.” I leaned closer. “Am I imagining things, Lou?”“You might be,” my friend reassured me after a moment’s thought. “But you might be right too. You’re a down-to-earth girl; you don’t make up or imagine things. But even if it is true, it’s perfectly normal.”“Normal?”“Of course! Remember he’s only a boy. He’s at a difficult, vulnerable age; his hormones will. They rode right on through Hays, following the tracks, riding slow.“Jerl, what do you think, can we take some of that gold off the train, or will there be too many Marshals riding on it to even try?”“I been thinking that if we hit the train while it’s stopped back there, they’d be more on the look out for trouble. But if we wait until the train pulls out headed east, then the train will take a long ways to even get up to the speed of a slow horse. We could ride out of that bunch of buck brush. I’d learned from living with and loving Annie for all those years that there are rhythms to life and love. What were the rhythms of sleeping with a pregnant woman? Different? For sure! What would it be like to lay with Acey—to reach out in the quiet hours and touch her swollen belly and feel a healthy kick for your efforts? I knew Annie would want me to actively father the child I was producing with Acey. She knew how disappointed I’d been with her miscarriage and the resultant finding that we.