He never knew much of his father. From what James understood, his father floated in and out of his mother's life until shortly after his younger siste... Allie was born. No phone calls, no texts, no birthday cards or letters. He simply vanished. James always resented him for that, but his mother still held onto fond memories of him. James could see the pain behind her eyes and could hear her cry some nights when she thought of the bastard. He swore that if he ever found his father, he'd kick his. Geez, if I keep this up, I'm gonna dissolve into tears again. Damn female hormones! I've cried more in the last two months than in the first 28 years of my life.I gave Sandy one last squeeze, kissed Amy soundly, and struggled out of our tangle so I could hurry off to the bathroom. I did my thing, and as I washed up, noticed my red puffy eyes and streaked makeup in the mirror over the sink. Liberal use of makeup remover, and a good scrubbing with cold water, and the mirror image was somewhat. He glanced at me and turned to gesture. The chest I had returned with floated out. The lid was open and it was empty and he smiled, "so your new girls have something. Get with the scouts after you set up the tent."I nodded and ignored the others as I lifted the chest to the wagon. I set up the tent beside the blacksmith and put the horses with his. I slipped into the cook tent and told the girls about the tent. I left and went to find the leader of the scouts. He was an older journeyman that. Untying herbelt, she shrugged her shoulders to let her robe slip to the ground.She could hear Paul moving around beyond the closed bathroom door. Shecounted herself lucky to have him as he seemed honest and genuinely nice- a rare commodity in her line of work. A little less than six monthsago, she'd been forced to hire him as her assistant in order to allaymore rumors of her sexuality. Of course, people still knew she was gaybut quite a few were superficial enough that simply having a.